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NASA plans to explore the most unknown planet in the solar system

2023-02-26 18:24:05Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
NASA plans to explore the most unknown planet in the solar system
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A key question has been raised in the scientific community, as NASA has until 2024 to decide what its next major space mission will be. Scientific communities have already started submitting their proposals. The first choice at the moment is the planet Uranus, the most "unknown" planet in the solar system.

That's because scientists know very little about this planet, which is four times the size of Earth. After all, it's been 30 years since the Voyager 2 spacecraft took its picture.

Uranus completes its orbit around the Sun every 84 Earth years. And winter on the planet lasts 21 years, temperatures reach -371 degrees Celsius.

In fact, scientists believe that there may be an ocean beneath the ice on its surface and therefore the possibility of life.

2 billion budget

The scientific community concluded that this should be the next major mission that NASA will have to approve by 2024.

In particular, he proposes that NASA send a probe to Uranus, which will penetrate its unknown atmosphere, and another spacecraft that can be put into orbit around the planet for at least five years (Earth).

The budget for the mission would exceed 2 billion dollars.

On February 16, Kathleen Mandt of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory explained in an article in the journal Science that the mission "could lead to conclusions about the origin and evolution of the solar system, as well as many other phenomena about the mysterious planet."

With current technology, it would take a spacecraft 12 to 15 years to travel the 1.8 billion miles to reach Uranus.

Other proposals

According to astrophysicist Fabio Favata, NASA still has many options on the table. Final decisions must be made by 2024, so that launch can take place within the next decade.

However, apart from Uranus, perhaps the next big mission (in two decades) will be Neptune, the other frozen "giant" that remains unexplored.

On the other hand, Pluto, which is even further away and is no longer considered a planet, has been studied extensively by experts, thanks to a visit by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.


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