INTERVIEW – Last year, the giant jelly was made a top priority by American planetary scientists for the coming decade. Astrophysicist Olivier Mousis explains why the European Space Agency (ESA) must seize this opportunity.
In their 10-year “Origins, Worlds and Life” roadmap, US planetary scientists last year called on NASA to launch a large-scale mission to the frozen giant Uranus. In an article published this week in the “Perspective” section of the journal Science , researcher Kathleen Mandt, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recalls the importance of the scientific objectives of such a mission. Olivier Mousis, director of the Origins Institute at Aix-Marseille University, has also been campaigning for a long time to observe this planet and its icy moons more closely and hopes that the European Space Agency (ESA) will mobilize to participate in this adventure. .
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LE FIGARO.- What is the purpose of this article in Science ?
Olivier MOUSIS.- I know Kathleen Mandt well, I was on her thesis committee. I think she’s just very keen to see this idea of a mission to Uranus come to fruition. This is the recommendation…
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