'We're getting ready to probe Uranus' say NASA scientists

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READ MORE: Breakthrough mission to find life on Venus launched as 'slow' NASA blastedDr Lori Glaze, director of Nasa’s Planetary Science Division, said it was “fantastic” that the space agency’s recent survey on the highest priority next flagship had specifically identified ice giant Uranus to visit.Dr Glaze added that studies to plan for the ­potential Uranus orbiter probe mission will begin as early as 2024.She added: “We will explore a range of complexity and cost options as part of those studies.

We’re really excited about this.”A spacecraft would spend several years orbiting the planet with a potential probe diving through its atmosphere.

It comes after your Daily Star laid claim there in 2020 – buying part of the seventh planet from the sun after Russia suggested it owned Venus.

The Real Estate Comm-ission and Trust of Uranus Management (RECTUM) flogged parts of the far­away planet for just under £8 per square mile.RECTUM’s website read: “We guarantee no one can lay claim on Uranus by registering each deed.”Planetary scientists believe Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, the five largest moons of Uranus, could also have vast lakes of liquid water hidden beneath their surfaces.Benjamin Weiss, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, has proposed a method of detecting these hidden oceans and thereby identifying pockets of life elsewhere in the Solar System.“The big question here is, ‘Where are habitable environments in the solar system?’” he says.He adds that the discoveries of hidden oceans on Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus “make a lot of us wonder whether there are many Moons out there that, although they’re small, may still be warm.”The next opportunity for a.