Top Scientists Call on NASA to Probe Uranus

The world's top scientists want to see Uranus in greater detail.

Every decade, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine releases a research wish list for the world's top planetary scientists. It includes probing Uranus.

The National Academies Press has published a survey called "Origins, Worlds, and Life" which contains a lot of interesting tidbits.

It is time to send a probe to Uranus.

To Boldly Go

It is one of the most important items on this scientist wish list because, to put it bluntly, no one has ever really gone there, save for a fly-by in 1986.

According to Robin Canup, the co-chair of the steering committee that helped pick these scientific priorities, Uranus is an ice giant.

Canup told NPR that they saw the mission as delivering breakthrough science because they didn't know much about the systems.

Who would have thunk that there were surprises in Uranus?

NASA advisers call for a visit to Uranus and more science during moon landings.

There are more jokes about the seventh planet.