Uranus a March 1782 treatise, Bode proposed "Uranus", the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that the name should follow the mythology so as not to stand out as different from the other planets, and that Uranus was an appropriate name as the father of the first generation of the Titans. He also noted that elegance of the name in that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn. In 1789, Bode's Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element uranium in
Exploration of Uranus In 2011, the United States National Research Council recommended a Uranus orbiter and probe as the third priority for a NASA Flagship mission by the NASA Planetary Science Decadal Survey. However, this mission is considered to be lower-priority than future missions to Mars and the Jovian System.<ref name="2013-2022/Decadal"></ref> A mission to Uranus is one of several proposed uses under consideration for the unmanned variant of NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) currently in development. The SLS would reportedly be capable of launching up to 1.7 metric tons to Uranus. In 2013, it was proposed to use an electric sail (E-Sail)