Saturday, April 11, 2020

Dragonfly :)



Like it's insect namesake, Dragonfly will have four counter-rotating rotors to enable it to fly in Titan's thick atmosphere while exploring Saturn's giant moon. Awesome mission as followup to Cassini, the most successful mission IMHO, that NASA has ever done.



Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission – part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program – designed to take advantage of Titan’s environment to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings. This revolutionary mission concept includes the capability to explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment, to investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and even to search for chemical signatures that could indicate water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL


How cool is that? :)




Read the SciencdDaily piece in it's entirety, it's the smart thing to do. :)

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