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Old 07-11-2015, 10:26 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by dammage79 View Post
Fascinating times we are in.

Landing a man made machine on a fast moving comet? Check.

Landing roving robots on Mars? Check.

Getting modern fly by images of planets in our solar system? Check. (Saturn, Jupiter and their moons and?) Check.

PLUTO! Whaaaaaat! Check (maybe).

Have we done any others? I want to say Mercury had a fly by but I might mistake that with the movie Sunshine.

Don't think we've done Neptune or Uranus yet. Why not those before Pluto? Wish it had more power after to send us some shots deeper into the Kuiper belt.
Mercury Mission:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu

Neptune:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Neptune

Uranus:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Uranus

Cassini - Saturn
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/c...ain/index.html

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