Thursday 27 June 2019

NASA announces new mission to explore Titan with flying rover

Artist's concept of the Dragonfly drone on Titan

NASA has chosen its next planetary mission, which will send a flying rover called Dragonfly to Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The size of the Curiosity Mars rover, the unmanned, nuclear-powered explorer will not have wheels, but will fly through the Titanian atmosphere using eight rotors as it looks for organic molecules, including the building blocks for past or present life.

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