Where in space would you explore if money were no aim ? What burn scientific motion would you want to see answered ? Professor Brian Cox has a readable solvent about that . He would like to send two mission out to the shabu giants , Uranus and Neptune , he tell us .

The distant planet have only been visited once by NASA ’s Voyager 2 : Uranusin 1986 and Neptune in 1989 . The mission learned a lot about these two worlds , but it was a flying sojourn – a literal flyby – and plenty of erratic peculiarities came out of that brief brush .

While hash out the previous science featured in his unexampled BBC series , Solar Systems , Cox told us that though the serial publication explore the trash giants , this is where he would like to see the next big blank exploration mission go to next as there is still so much more to be discovered about these unusual worlds .

If I was if I was one of these billionaire … just drift around with all my money , I would fund two missionary post : an orbiter to Uranus and an satellite to Neptune .

" Really , the case for a big mission , an orbiter to both Uranus and Neptune , I imagine is so consuming ! If I was one of these billionaire … just floating around with all my money , I would fund two missions : I ’d fund an orbiter to Uranus and an orbiter to Neptune , " Professor Cox told IFLScience .

They are foreign worlds indeed . Uranus has a trulybizarre charismatic fieldand it orbits on its side , in all likelihood a import of acolossal impactbillions of years ago . Uranus’smoonMiranda also has the crowing cliff in the Solar System , up to 20 kilometers ( 12 miles ) in tallness . Neptune hasever - changing storms , and its declamatory moonTritonis an participating world with cryovolcanos .

These worlds are explore in his raw seriesSolar System , computer computer graphic bridge over the gap between observation conducted 40 years ago and what we see today . Still , even regarding the least explore worlds of the Solar System , the skill has not stalled . Recent observationsfrom JWST , Hubble , and other telescopes have revealednew insights into the shabu giantsand the series very much embraces the late discoveries .

For a series on the utmost and gripping public of the Solar System , the show is actually very hands - on , with Cox show the science in experimentation in situ in place like volcanic Iceland , linking what we get laid about the complicated celestial body with physical laws that we check in schooltime . For example , we discover why a poached orchis is like our Moon while a fresh one is like Saturn ’s Enceladus .

That is not the start of a put-on but a unproblematic experiment that you may do at plate : a unconstipated egg is melted inside . If you make it whirl , it will wobble . A boiled egg is solid at heart so will spin out other than . By contemplate the wobbles of moons such as Enceladus , scientists were capable to state that a fluid ocean was present under its icy case . It is the same physical principle and helped us findone of the most bright sitesfor extraterrestrial biography in the Solar System .

“ [ It ] was very different to seat there and do piffling experimentation , schooling experiments essentially , to demonstrate … that this very cardinal theme that the law of nature of nature that we see here on Earth are also applicable out there in the across-the-board universe , " Professor Cox told IFLScience .

" It is really interesting link the scientific discipline that members of the populace have done in schoolhouse or their children are doing right now to the big and small objects in the Solar System . ”

From the vent on Io to the go ice passel of Pluto via Martian junk devils , the series explores the extreme , the prodigious , and the odd in the Solar System . Catch the serial publication every Wednesday , from October 2 to October 30 , at 9 pm ET/8C onPBS / NOVA . UK looker can tune up in onBBC Twostarting October 7 at 9 Prime Minister BST . Available on other spreader worldwide this October .