A Mission To Boldly Go To Uranus And Neptune

By John Wenz
Jul 27, 2018 10:45 PMMay 21, 2019 5:59 PM
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A Voyager 2 image of Neptune, captured 4.4 million miles from the planet. (Credit: NASA/JPL)

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Uranus and Neptune, the seventh and eighth planets, are largely a mystery — but that could change within the next two decades.

A study submitted to Arxiv by Amy Simon and Mark Hoffstadter, NASA veterans and experts on those planets, and Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, outlines a cost-effective plan to explore those planets — and maybe even visit a few new places on the way out.

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