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NASA Wants to Explore Neptune’s Moon Triton—Solar System’s Coldest Object May Have Ocean Life

posted by chromas on Monday March 25 2019, @02:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the click-on-the-sun-for-more dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

foxnews.com/science/nasa-wants-to-explore-neptunes-moon-triton-solar-systems-coldest-object-may-have-ocean-harboring-alien-life

The mission would involve developing a new kind of spacecraft known as Trident.

It would fly to Triton and take photographs of the icy object, while also studying its atmosphere and chemical makeup for signs of an underground ocean.

[...]

Little is known about Triton, and the only images we have of the moon were captured by the Voyager 2 probe in 1989.

During that flyby, space boffins spotted geysers on Triton that spewed out nitrogen gas. Nasa earmarked it for further research.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @03:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 25 2019, @03:40PM (#819578)

    i guess it's going to need the dumping of a small pile of pooh-tonium on otherworldly pristine ground to make it work :(
    well i hope they can install a small spy-cam on the bot too so we can spy on the neptunias ...