Interplanet Janet

Maybe, the Crown Jool ?

Maybe a super-microscopic etching of certain human images? Or maybe it could come with a large USB drive, with a plug embedded within it? Who knows what to bring along? (maybe if Mike Brown dies before the launch, his ashes could be transported? just saying)

...how did I not get that... (well, it could be used to power the craft, but still...)

Heh... good idea. Certainly helps. EDIT: A NUKE WOULD NOT HELP A MISSION AT ALL.

I have been studying concepts for missions, and I think I might have one. It is basically an expansion upon the idea of a Saturn atmospheric probe whose relay will escape the Solar System. As of yet, it is nameless, but I have some ideas for what it will be. The carrier-relay probe will have a wide-angle camera with color capabilities, and a narrow-angle camera with only B&W. This is similar to the Ralph-Lorri dichotomy on New Horizons. It may also have some other instruments from the Voyager probes, such as a magnetometer, radio receiver, UV spectrometer, etc. Finally, it will carry an atmospheric probe to descend into Saturn's atmosphere. It will be released not long before the Saturn flyby, and after the relay passes from the shadow, it will relay the data collected from the atmospheric probe, as well as data it may have collected as well. The carrier-relay would look like a mesh between Voyager, New Horizons, and Galileo (with the atmospheric probe), possibly. It would be launched in mid-2034, have a 1.7-year-long cruise phase to Jupiter, then take about 4 years to get to Saturn. After that, a Haumea flyby may be possible, given enough funding directed toward it. A couple of questions, however: Since it's on an escape trajectory from the Solar System, what cargo will it carry for aliens to find? Would it be feasible to have a camera embedded into the probe to take a picture of the Saturnian atmosphere? To get to Haumea, how close would the carrier-relay have to fly to Saturn? Would it be possible to make a mockup of it using RSS? (preferably both imgur photographs AND a youtube video) These are two possible trajectories I might use. They aren't necessary, but is instead a template or guideline. https://drive.google.com/open?id=14YrJYsIIzYcgSTCZa_DjR8acOjPp26Ks https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GF_xSTJa7mQ37aFmDcRsh06SYOPoPD0e Share your thoughts below.

Indeed. @max_creative

Wait a minute...you should also mention that you can use gravity assists (Jool, Sarnus, etc.) to reach them.

Would you also be able to add in other planet packs? For instance, Stock Planet Expansion by @The White Guardian, Realistic Ascension by @lajoswinkler, or Outer Reaches by @_Augustus_ ?

Oh hey! Didn't I give you that only-one-Ion Duna Grand Tour challenge?

Why not show us the orbits of these moons in map view for your photos?

Ah. Is it the Proteus?

Wait, where did you end up putting Froth? As a trojan of Eeloo around Sarnus? Or somewhere else? It might be a cool Rhea or Chariklo analog.

Great! It Woyks!

Would this be compatible with @_Augustus_ ' "Realistic Rescale" mod?

Great compromise, actually!

Touché.

Although it could be so small as to be harder to break apart within the Roche Limit...

I think CaptRobau's back online...

And again, there is the possibility (in Principia) of one of the moons crashing into Jool due to tidal forces. Because it orbits around it faster than Jool spins.

Who knows, maybe the probe could even go on a trajectory that somehow makes it encounter Planet Nine. Maybe it could send back infrared images between the Quaoarian and Sednian flybys?

Granted. Now everything has twice the gravitational force as usual. I wish I was a fish.

Wait a minute... @_Augustus_, check this out!

Would any moons be thrown out of orbit if Principia is used?

OK...maybe have someone else do it for you? I have Steam, but I don't have it installed on my computer yet.

Again, you should make a quick Kopernicus mod to see if it will work. Maybe use Principia to simulate the n-body changes. Who's to say two of them didn't get sucked up by Laythe's gravity?