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Ice giant system exploration in the 2020s: an introduction
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences ( IF 5 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 , DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0473
L. N. Fletcher 1 , A. A. Simon 2 , M. D. Hofstadter 3 , C. S. Arridge 4 , Ian J. Cohen 5 , A. Masters 6 , K. Mandt 5 , A. Coustenis 7
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The international planetary science community met in London in January 2020, united in the goal of realizing the first dedicated robotic mission to the distant ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, as the only major class of solar system planet yet to be comprehensively explored. Ice-giant-sized worlds appear to be a common outcome of the planet formation process, and pose unique and extreme tests to our understanding of exotic water-rich planetary interiors, dynamic and frigid atmospheres, complex magnetospheric configurations, geologically-rich icy satellites (both natural and captured), and delicate planetary rings. This article introduces a special issue on ice giant system exploration at the start of the 2020s. We review the scientific potential and existing mission design concepts for an ambitious international partnership for exploring Uranus and/or Neptune in the coming decades. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Future exploration of ice giant systems’.

中文翻译:

2020年代冰巨系统探索:介绍

国际行星科学界于 2020 年 1 月在伦敦举行会议,共同目标是实现对遥远冰巨星天王星和海王星的第一个专用机器人任务,这是唯一尚未全面探索的太阳系主要行星。冰巨星大小的世界似乎是行星形成过程的共同结果,对我们对奇异的富含水的行星内部、动态和寒冷的大气层、复杂的磁层结构、地质丰富的冰卫星的理解提出了独特而极端的考验。自然和捕获),以及精致的行星环。本文介绍了 2020 年代初冰巨星系统探索的特刊。我们回顾了未来几十年探索天王星和/或海王星的雄心勃勃的国际合作伙伴关系的科学潜力和现有任务设计概念。本文是讨论会问题“冰巨星系统的未来探索”的一部分。
更新日期:2020-11-09
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