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Neptune Odyssey: why we need to visit an ice giant

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Science of Neptune

This is a long mission. You're talking multiple dec s of work, so you're oin to have a multi generational team. The science and stuff is going to be dynamic and changing. We'd like to understand how the dynamo inside neptune works,. How its magneto sphere works. There are ultra violet auroras, ultra violet northern and southern lights around neptune. And we also had space physicists to study neptune's very strange off-centre magnetic field.

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