Galileo-style Uranus Tour (2003) | WIRED

Uranusprobe

Galileo-style Uranus Tour (2003) | WIRED.

Uranus deserves more attention. There’s something weird about its insides – it should be radiating more heat than it does, but something deep inside keeps it bottled up. Plus its moons are fascinating. An Orbiter, as Dave Portree ably discusses, should be able to use the moons for orbit changes just like the “Galileo” mission did during its 1995-2003 sojourn at Jupiter.

The paper outlining the mission is available here: Feasibility of a Galileo-Style Tour of the Uranian Satellites