@article{Fletcher:2020:10.1098/rsta.2019.0473,
author = {Fletcher, LN and Simon, AA and Hofstadter, MD and Arridge, CS and Cohen, IJ and Masters, A and Mandt, K and Coustenis, A},
doi = {10.1098/rsta.2019.0473},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
pages = {1--11},
title = {Ice giant system exploration in the 2020s: an introduction},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0473},
volume = {378},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - The international planetary science community met in London in January 2020, united in the goal of realizing the first dedicated robotic mission to the distant ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, as the only major class of solar system planet yet to be comprehensively explored. Ice-giant-sized worlds appear to be a common outcome of the planet formation process, and pose unique and extreme tests to our understanding of exotic water-rich planetary interiors, dynamic and frigid atmospheres, complex magnetospheric configurations, geologically-rich icy satellites (both natural and captured), and delicate planetary rings. This article introduces a special issue on ice giant system exploration at the start of the 2020s. We review the scientific potential and existing mission design concepts for an ambitious international partnership for exploring Uranus and/or Neptune in the coming decades.
AU  - Fletcher,LN
AU  - Simon,AA
AU  - Hofstadter,MD
AU  - Arridge,CS
AU  - Cohen,IJ
AU  - Masters,A
AU  - Mandt,K
AU  - Coustenis,A
DO  - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0473
EP  - 11
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1364-503X
SP  - 1
TI  - Ice giant system exploration in the 2020s: an introduction
T2  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0473
UR  - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2019.0473
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/84510
VL  - 378
ER  - 

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