From Shakespeare to “Se7en,” these ideas run the gamut. Earhart, Tempest or MUSE?
Fans of planet Uranus have many ideas to name the next mission there, if an informal Internet poll is any indication.
ExploreIGO, a Twitter fan account devoted to icy worlds, asked its community yesterday what to call a spacecraft visiting the big blue world.
Embedded with the tweet is a cover based on a 2021 proposal by three scientists led by Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The group told the U.S. decadal survey of planetary science that a spacecraft to Uranus is a “journey whose time has come.”
Space, excerpt posted on SouthFloridaReporter.com, Sept. 13, 2022
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