While overall science funding was slashed substantially in the outline of President Trump's budget sent to Congress, the scientists gathered in The Woodlands for the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference received an upbeat message from NASA officials in a briefing Monday evening.

"The budget is incredibly good," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA headquarters. "NASA fared incredibly well."

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And so it did, with only a one percent cut. That was good news to both the human exploration side, which supports the International Space Station and is involved in building a large new rocket and capsule for deeper space exploration, and for the planetary scientists whose long list of past and present missions throughout the solar system have provided some of the agency's greatest achievements. Fearing the worst, NASA saw only a significant hit to its Earth science programs, which will lose several missions as a result.

The budget proposal is only that. Whether Congress will restore funding for Earth science, which assists research into climate change and its effects, is uncertain. With Republicans in charge, climate research and the instruments that support it could have less political support when budget authorizations are finalized. The Trump administration has said it wants NASA to focus on deep space exploration and leave terrestrial research to other agencies, many of which will receive far more drastic budget cuts under the outline presented.

That did not sit well with those in attendance, who called for their organizations and members to lobby Congress on behalf of the threatened missions, several of which were to launch satellites in the next few years.

Click through the slideshow above to see some of the takeaways from the Monday briefing.