Ice Giants

5 reasons why Ice Giants need a space mission

The inner solar system is overrated.

by JoAnna Wendel
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An illustration of two blue Ice Giant planets - Neptune and Uranus

The outer two planets of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, are still a big mystery.

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While orbiters, landers, and probes have explored every other planet in the solar system, we’ve only glimpsed Uranus and Neptune close up once — in 1986 and '89, using the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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