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NASA plans to explore the planet Uranus

Politiko 2023-02-27 16:04:40

NASA plans to explore the planet Uranus

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.

It's been 30 years since the Voyager 2 spacecraft took pictures of it. Uranus completes its orbit around the Sun every 84 Earth years. 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.

The scientific community concluded that this should be the next major mission that NASA will have to approve by 2024. In particular, it proposes that NASA send a probe to Uranus, which will penetrate the atmosphere his unknown and another spacecraft that can be put into orbit around the planet for at least five years. The budget for the mission would exceed 2 billion dollars.

We recall that NASA's Curiosity rover has recently found evidence that there were lakes in different regions of Mars. The US space agency reported the discovery of undulating rock textures, suggesting that large signs of water existed in an area that scientists had thought would be drier. "This is the most accurate evidence of water and waves that we have seen in the entire mission," said one of the researchers.

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