When someone sez, we're going to probe Uranus, run for it. Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 09/13/2022 8:00:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
ExploreIGO, a Twitter fan account devoted to icy worlds, asked its community yesterday what to call a spacecraft visiting the big blue world.
Embedded with the tweet is a 2021 proposal by three scientists led by Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The group told the U.S. decadal survey of planetary science that a spacecraft to Uranus is a "journey whose time has come."
Uranus was voted the top destination by the community in April after this proposal process, which was led by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The decadal committee called for a $4 billion flagship mission combining a Uranus orbiter and probe, to examine the icy giant's wild weather and enigmatic features from up close. It would be the first time a smaller icy gas giant gets a detailed mission, after others visited the much larger Jupiter and Saturn.
The mission, if accepted, would leave Earth in 2031 or so and take 13 years to move to the outer solar system, but unlike Voyager, it would orbit Uranus for many years instead of just swinging by. But the mission is by no means a done deal. It requires funding and a measure of scientific and technical will to get the ambitious spacecraft proposal together.
In the meantime, observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory continue to observe Uranus from afar to look at its atmosphere, rings and moons.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
The Joe Biden Express ?
pete buttigieg?
No direct link in the article for the “fun” names.
Name the probe “Shakespeare”. Because most of the moons are named after characters in his plays
No.....we’ll have to come up with them ourselves.
There are no original jokes to be told.
Change my mind.
BUTTPLUG 1?
Italian word for “suppository”? Innuendo
Phil
No discussion of just how large this Probe is going to be, either.
To help the naming process, is this a deep probe of Uranus?
Kamala Harris
wy69
The Lindsey Graham Explorer
Proctoscope 1.
AmericaninTokyo
When someone sez, we're going to probe Uranus, run for it. Thanks BenLurkin.
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She is ready to probe Uranus.
The Rump Ranger or simply Monkey Pox.
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