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A Mission To Boldly Go To Uranus And Neptune

Uranus and Neptune, the seventh and eighth planets, are largely a mystery — but that could change within the next two decades.A study submitted to Arxiv by Amy Simon and Mark Hoffstadter, NASA veterans and experts on those planets, and Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, outlines a cost-effective plan to explore those planets — and maybe even visit a few new places on the way out.
The paper, the end result of a working group setting their sites on Ur
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