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The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...
Experts at NASA have claimed that the car-size rotorcraft Dragonfly has passed its review and is ready to head to Titan, ...
Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday.
NASA's pioneering Dragonfly mission has passed its critical design review, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to the ...
The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched from Earth in 1997 and reached the ringed gas giant in 2004. The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon ...
Composite view of Titan built thanks to Cassini’s images taken on October 9 and October 25, 2006. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, ...
Mysterious “leopard spots” on a Martian rock could be evidence of extraterrestrial life—or of mere lifeless chemistry. Finding out the truth may require bringing the rock back to Earth ...
Back in 2006, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gave scientists their first clear view of Titan’s surface. Its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) pierced Titan’s thick, hazy atmosphere and revealed flowing ...
But the absence of deltas raises a host of new questions. Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well ...
"We conclude that Titan's uniquely rich organic inventory may not in fact be available to play the role in the moon's ...