Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Some interesting speculation about how best to explore Neptune. I’ve love to know more about that planet.

While a pair of NASA rovers explore Mars and the Cassini-Huygens mission peers close at Saturn, two research teams are targeting a more distant planetary quarry, the ice giant Neptune.

In the separate studies, planetary scientists and engineers are drawing up plans to send an orbiter laden with atmospheric probes and landers to Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun. While each mission has its own way of reaching Neptune, both seek a better understanding of the planet and its surrounding 13 known moons, especially the oddball Triton.

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