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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thus the 'aside from launch failure's part. No rocket scientist here, but way I figure if we can send probes to do flyby photos of the outer planets how hard can it be to hit the biggest thing in our system?

Lift costs might be stupidly high too, but more a would it be possible thought.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Because the other planets are in orbit of the sun like the Earth is. The sun itself is stationary, so not only do you have to go all the way over there, you also have to cancel out the rotation of the Earth.