Neptune Orbiter, Another proposed mission |
Neptune Orbiter, Another proposed mission |
Nov 10 2005, 03:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
This seems like a good place to start off the Uranus and Neptune forum: with the next ice-giants mission.
I will admit to not knowing a whole lot about the Neptune Orbiter With Probes (NOWP), other than the fact that it's in the planning stages, and a few other details I've gathered from Wikipedia and various other Internet sources. Anyone care to get this one going with a bit more information? |
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Nov 12 2005, 02:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 30-January 05 Member No.: 162 |
Alex Blackwell has a post in the Uranus Orbiter thread that refers to a paper outlining the feasability of a Galileo style tour of the Uranian system.
Far easier to do than I realized, which is a good thing! |
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Nov 15 2005, 11:59 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Here is an approach sequence of Proteus. All color is based on the view in the lower left (the "bad tooth" picture). The view on the left is the best - 1.3 km/pixel, but is so underexposed that it is hard to interperet.
It is interesting to see how irregular Proteus is, despite the fact that it is a bit larger than relatively-round Mimas. Perhaps it is because it is the re-assembled lumps of old Neptunian moons. Perhaps some other reason. Either way, I find it most interesting. -------------------- |
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Nov 16 2005, 06:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
QUOTE (tedstryk @ Nov 15 2005, 05:59 PM) It is interesting to see how irregular Proteus is, despite the fact that it is a bit larger than relatively-round Mimas. Perhaps it is because it is the re-assembled lumps of old Neptunian moons. Perhaps some other reason. Either way, I find it most interesting. Could be that it's just really beat up from impacts -- which makes one wonder about whether Triton had anything to do with that. I don't have much trouble imagining that satellite-satellite collisions would have been epidemic in the Neptune system right after Triton came barrelling onto the scene. If Neptune's early system was similar to Uranus' (with Proteus as the "Miranda" perhaps) the chaos would have been pretty incredible there for a while. |
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