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Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane?

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:26:41 -0700, Mahipal wrote:

> 
> That's likely due to the lack of practical/engineering/need utility of such
> perpendicular orbits. What's to be gained to going to where we already well
> know that there's only nothing there?
>

There is plenty out there.  The Ulysses mission has already demonstrated that.

To give another example, asteroids that may threaten the earth are located
in highly inclined orbits, and NASA wants to send probes into polar orbits
to locate them.

> 
> An ecliptic plane has a volume of zero. It has zero depth. 
>

Just like your brains.

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