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How NASA Mission Designers Invent Futuristic Spacecraft
From journeying to distant worlds to catching asteroids, this NASA conceptual design team turns the spacecraft of your dreams into reality. Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2VOJIQv Read More: This Jumping Probe Might Explore Neptune’s Biggest Moon https://www.popsci.com/this-jumping-p… “After the probe (called the Triton Hopper) lands on Triton, it would use radioactive isotopes to heat ice that it mined from the moon to drive rocket-powered jumps up to a kilometer high and five kilometers long. Steven Oleson, the principal investigator on the Triton Hopper, says the probe has the potential to explore a large portion of the moon’s surface. “We want to go from the equator to the pole.”” A…