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Exploration of Uranus


Uranus: Exploration - NASA Science

Only one spacecraft has visited distant Uranus. After traveling more than 1.8 billion miles (3 billion kilometers) in nine years, NASA's Voyager 2 gathered ...

Exploration of Uranus - Wikipedia

Exploration of Uranus ... The exploration of Uranus has, to date, been through telescopes and a lone probe by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which made its closest ...

Uranus - NASA Science

A Bit Lonely. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to fly by Uranus. No spacecraft has orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close ...

NASA's Uranus Mission Is Running Out of Time - Scientific American

The planet Uranus, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in January 1986. This close encounter was humankind's first—and so far only—visit to ...

Uranus: Time to Boldly Go - Eos.org

The mission would deploy an atmospheric probe shortly after arrival, tour several moons, and then settle into orbit for 4.5 Earth years. The ...

Uranus up close: What NASA 'ice giant' mission would teach us

The aim of the mission — currently given the placeholder name of the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) — is to explore how Uranus and the rest of ...

Exploring Planet Uranus - YouTube

In one of the least explored regions of our solar system, there is an ice giant that scientists believe can help us unlock some of the ...

Patience for Uranus | The Planetary Society

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made humanity's lone visit on Jan. 24, 1986. During a six-hour period, the spacecraft captured our only up-close images of Uranus, ...

Uranus by 2049: Here's why scientists want NASA to send a flagship ...

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission will cost in the region of $4.2 billion, according to initial evaluations. Some scientists thought that a ...

Journey to the mystery planet: why Uranus is the new target for ...

Despite these astronomical oddities and extremes, surprisingly little effort has been made to get up close to Uranus. Only one robot probe has ...

Exploring Planet Uranus | By NASA Solar System Exploration

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest planet in the solar system. It also may have the coldest interior, emitting far ...

Uranus Orbiter and Probe - Wikipedia

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. ... The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize ...

The science case for an orbital mission to Uranus - ScienceDirect.com

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have explored Uranus, with a flyby in 1986, and no mission is currently planned to this enigmatic system. However, a mission ...

NASA wants to explore Uranus. Here's why that won't happen until ...

Known as the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), the mission will most likely involve a cone-shaped probe that will dive down into Uranus's ...

The many mysteries NASA can solve on a mission to Uranus

Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of the least explored regions of our solar system. Although scientists have ...

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus - Futurism

a NASA scientist is calling on the agency to build and launch a new exploratory probe — one designed, to the delight of us all, to investigate ...

'Once in a lifetime': UK and European space scientists urged to join ...

Two years ago, the US National Academy of Sciences published a report that called on Nasa to launch a Uranus probe as a priority flagship ...

A NEW FRONTIERS MISSION CONCEPT FOR THE EXPLORATION ...

A NEW FRONTIERS MISSION CONCEPT FOR THE EXPLORATION OF URANUS. S. J. Saikia1 and I. J.. Daubar2, E. Jens3, M. B. Syal4, M Bunte5, C. Cook6, E. Decrossas7, A ...

Exploring the origins and evolution of ice giant planets - ScienceDirect

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have explored Uranus, with a flyby in 1986, and no mission is currently planned to this enigmatic system. However, a mission ...

How we would explore Uranus or Neptune | The Planetary Society

The Juno spacecraft took five years to reach Jupiter. The Cassini spacecraft took almost seven to reach Saturn. A mission to orbit Uranus, by ...


Exploration of Uranus

The exploration of Uranus has, to date, been through telescopes and a lone probe by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which made its closest approach to Uranus on January 24, 1986.