Ice giant system exploration within ESA’s Voyage 2050

Leigh N. Fletcher; Ravit Helled; Elias Roussos; Geraint Jones; Sébastien Charnoz; Nicolas André; David Andrews; Michele Bannister; Emma Bunce; Thibault Cavalié; Francesca Ferri; Jonathan Fortney; Davide Grassi; Léa Griton; Paul Hartogh; Ricardo Hueso; Yohai Kaspi; Laurent Lamy; Adam Masters; Henrik Melin; Julianne Moses; Oliver Mousis; Nadine Nettleman; Christina Plainaki; Jürgen Schmidt; Amy Simon; Gabriel Tobie; Paolo Tortora; Federico Tosi; Diego Turrini

doi:10.1007/s10686-021-09759-z

Ice giant system exploration within ESA’s Voyage 2050

Leigh N. Fletcher, Ravit Helled, Elias Roussos, Geraint Jones, Sébastien Charnoz, Nicolas André, David Andrews, Michele Bannister, Emma Bunce, Thibault Cavalié, Francesca Ferri, Jonathan Fortney, Davide Grassi, Léa Griton, Paul Hartogh, Ricardo Hueso, Yohai Kaspi, Laurent Lamy, Adam Masters, Henrik MelinJulianne Moses, Oliver Mousis, Nadine Nettleman, Christina Plainaki, Jürgen Schmidt, Amy Simon, Gabriel Tobie, Paolo Tortora, Federico Tosi, Diego Turrini

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Of all the myriad environments in our Solar System, the least explored are the distant Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune, and their diverse satellite and ring systems. These ‘intermediate-sized’ worlds are the last remaining class of Solar System planet to be characterised by a dedicated robotic mission, and may shape the paradigm for the most common outcome of planetary formation throughout our galaxy. In response to the 2019 European Space Agency call for scientific themes in the 2030s and 2040s (known as Voyage 2050), we advocated that an international partnership mission to explore an Ice Giant should be a cornerstone of ESA’s science planning in the coming decade, targeting launch opportunities in the early 2030s. This article summarises the inter-disciplinary science opportunities presented in that White Paper [1], and briefly describes developments since 2019.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1015-1025
Number of pages	11
Journal	Experimental Astronomy
Volume	54
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09759-z
State	Published - Dec 2022

Keywords

Ice Giants
Neptune
Planetary exploration
Uranus

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Fletcher, L. N., Helled, R., Roussos, E., Jones, G., Charnoz, S., André, N., Andrews, D., Bannister, M., Bunce, E., Cavalié, T., Ferri, F., Fortney, J., Grassi, D., Griton, L., Hartogh, P., Hueso, R., Kaspi, Y., Lamy, L., Masters, A., ... Turrini, D. (2022). Ice giant system exploration within ESA’s Voyage 2050. Experimental Astronomy, 54(2-3), 1015-1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09759-z

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