Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
Jan 12 2008, 09:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
As soon as MESSENGER gets to Mercury, the most poorly explored planets in the solar system will be Uranus and Neptune. Could this lead to a revival of interest in the ice giants and their retinue, in the same way that the existence of New Horizons is perhaps partly due to the Pluto stamp*?
*via Pluto Fast Flyby and later Pluto Kuiper Express |
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Jan 14 2008, 10:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
But it would have missed Ida and Gaspra, and the cool photos of Earth and Venus.
On the other hand, the main antenna might have worked, and the probe would have followed the SL9 impacts from orbit... -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Jan 14 2008, 10:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
and the probe would have followed the SL9 impacts from orbit... It would have been on the wrong side of the planet at the time. -------------------- |
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Jan 14 2008, 11:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
It would have been on the wrong side of the planet at the time. How do you know that? Wouldn't the Jupiter tour have been different, if it had traveled directly to the planet? It would have been there already for years. And even if wouldn't have seen the impacts, it would have had much better view of the impact effects than any observatory at Earth. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Jan 14 2008, 11:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
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