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Feb 17, 2022 · Neptune Odyssey isn’t the only attempt to give NASA a blueprint for a mission to the eighth planet from the Sun. In 2021 NASA toyed with Trident, a proposed Discovery -class mission to conduct a flyby of Neptune and Triton. It would have launched in 2026 to reach Neptune and Triton in 2038. It was passed over in favor of two missions to Venus ...
Sep 17, 2024 · Neptune, the farthest known planet, was last visited by Voyager 2 in the 1980s. ... Trident is another mission under consideration for a trip to Neptune, as Fraser explains. Credit: Universe Today
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Mar 23, 2019 · The mission would have to be launched in 2026, for a Neptune encounter in 2038. New Horizons has effectively demonstrated the scientific value of fast flybys in the outer solar system. Trident’s encounter with Triton will be similarly rapid... so like New Horizons, they'll have only a few days of close-in data collection.
Mar 7, 2020 · This paper describes Trident, a proposed Discovery mission to Neptune’s moon Triton, 30 AU from the Sun. Triton formed in the Kuiper Belt but was captured by Neptune into a highly-inclined retrograde orbit, where tidal forces thawed its interior, forming an ocean that likely persists to the present day. Recent outer solar system missions like ...
Jun 18, 2020 · A possible new mission called Trident aims to explore Neptune 's strange moon Triton. Neptune's largest moon, Triton boasts an uncommon icy mixture on its surface, among other unique ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Trident would map most of the remainder. And Trident would use its full-frame imaging camera to capture the same plume-rich area Voyager 2 imaged - in full "Neptune-shine," when the Sun's reflected light illuminates the dark side of Triton. That way scientists could observe changes since the last visit and learn more about just how active ...
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Trident is a space mission concept to the outer planets proposed in 2019 to NASA 's Discovery Program. [3][4] The concept includes flybys of Jupiter and Neptune with a focus on Neptune's largest moon Triton. In 2020, Trident was selected along with three other Discovery proposals for further study, with two expected to be selected to fly as ...
