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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Feb 12 2008, 04:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
I still wish I could see a breakdown of costs. I keep wanting to believe that two identical orbiters (one for Uranus and one for Neptune) wouldn't cost twice as much as a single one, and that if one could time them right, the Neptune one would arrive just as the Uranus one reached the end of its life, so you could just keep more or less the same team. Even if the Neptune probe took 20 years to get there, it would just be the second act.
--Greg |
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