Will NASA’s Next Flagship Mission Be To ‘Ice Giant’ Neptune And Its Mad Moon Triton? -
Of the 5,000+ exoplanets detected elsewhere in our galaxy, the vast majority are Neptune-sized. We don’t know for sure that they are Neptune-like, but the fact that they are the same radius as a planet in our own solar system surely bolsters the science case for sending a mission.
“In principle we could de-orbit and continue out into the Solar System and perhaps visit Pluto, which is that direction,” said Abi Rymer, a Program Officer at NASA who acted as Principal Investigator forNeptune from Voyager 2 spacecraft, c1980s. The Voyager 2 space probe was launched by NASA in August1977. The purpose of the Voyager programme was to study the outer Solar System. Artist NASA.
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