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NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA group outlined four possible missions to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
These missions include three orbiters and a possible fly-by of Uranus. The planned probes would take off in the 2030s, New Scientist reports.
[...] One of the proposed missions includes a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow-angle camera – and a probe which would drop into Uranus's atmosphere to measure gas and heavy elements. There are four proposed missions. Three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant's moons. It would also drop an atmospheric probe to take a dive into Uranus's atmosphere to measure the levels of gas and heavy elements there.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday September 28 2018, @03:17AM (1 child)
I have often wondered the same thing. There must be some reason no-one does this, but I can't think what it might be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @04:50AM
Maybe because when NASA landed on mars they found an american flag already there enclosed with a note explaining how beards mimic cranial nerve damage to defeat lip reading.