Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
Onwards to Uranus and Neptune! |
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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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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 ![]() |
Also, as Star Trek IV showed us, is that by going close to the Sun for a gravity assist, you will go forward several hundred years in time. We could load the craft with nearly extinct animals so that it could repopulate the Earth on the way back out to a KBO. Oh, but then the craft will be several hundred years behind us and we won't get the benefit of its data. Hmm, back to the drawing board...
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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