Reply to post: Re: Weird planet.

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

cray74

Re: Weird planet.

We badly need to send another mission out there to take another look.

Yep, no doubt with an endless series of puns about probing the methane clouds of Uranus temporarily crippling the internet.

More seriously, one of the possible end missions for Cassini was to send it to Uranus. With a Titanian gravity assist, it'd putter its way there in about 20 years. But that was expensive (the team would have to be maintained for 20 more years), the probe would lack propellant for any significant maneuvers, and science return would be limited.

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