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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.
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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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NASA Wants to Explore Neptune’s Moon Triton—Solar System’s Coldest Object May Have Ocean Life
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:39AM
Hint: A hydrothermal vent inside an icy world isn't going to have orders of magnitude less energy than one on Earth. Maybe less, and less of them, but if life is super easy to get started, it might not matter.
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