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- A new mission competing for selection under NASA's Discovery Program aims to untangle these mysteries. Called Trident, like the three-pronged spear carried by the ancient Roman sea god Neptune, the team is one of four that is developing concept studies for new missions.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/proposed-nasa-mission-would-visit-neptunes-curious-moon-triton/Proposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune's Curious Moon Triton
Feb 13, 2020 · Two NASA-JPL proposals are among the selections: Trident would explore Neptune's moon Triton, while Veritas aims to map Venus' surface to determine the planet's geologic history.
- Triton - NASA Science
Scientists think Triton is a Kuiper Belt Object captured by...
- Proposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune’s Curious Moon Triton
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune’s strange...
- Neptune Odyssey: A Flagship Concept for the Exploration of ...
The Neptune Odyssey mission concept is a Flagship-class...
- Triton - NASA Science
Scientists think Triton is a Kuiper Belt Object captured by Neptune's gravity millions of years ago. It shares many similarities with Pluto, the best known world of the Kuiper Belt. Like our own moon, Triton is locked in synchronous rotation with Neptune―one side faces the planet at all times.
Jun 16, 2020 · When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune’s strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, and it left a lot of unanswered questions.
Feb 17, 2022 · Is it time NASA sent an orbiter to study the other blue planet in our solar system? Proposals for missions to study the ice giant planet Neptune and its mysterious moon Triton have been on NASA’s to-do list for over a decade, but nothing has happened until now.
Jun 16, 2020 · A new Discovery mission proposal, Trident would explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which is potentially an ocean world with liquid water under its icy crust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. A Three-Pronged Approach. Those mysterious plumes Voyager 2 spotted are especially intriguing.
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The Neptune Odyssey mission concept is a Flagship-class orbiter and atmospheric probe to the Neptune–Triton system. This bold mission of exploration would orbit an ice-giant planet to study the planet, its rings, small satellites, space environment, and the planet-sized moon Triton.
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Neptune Odyssey is an orbiter mission concept to study Neptune and its moons, particularly Triton. [1] The orbiter would enter into a retrograde orbit of Neptune to facilitate simultaneous study of Triton and would launch an atmospheric probe to characterize Neptune's atmosphere.
