These conditions make Titan a prime candidate for studying prebiotic chemistry and the potential for life. The Dragonfly mission takes full advantage of Titan's unique environment. Unlike ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory M ...

This is Dragonfly. It's a nuclear-powered drone that's the size of a large lawn mower. Now if NASA is going to send a space drone anywhere, it's Titan ... because, similar to on Earth, it has a ...

Alone among solar system satellites, Titan has sand dunes, lakes, rivers, rain, clouds, rainbows, and a thick nitrogen atmosphere. It even possesses organic molecules and possibly an ocean of salt ...

One upcoming New Frontiers mission is NASA’s Dragonfly, a quadcopter drone slated to launch to Saturn’s moon Titan no earlier than 2028. The recent survey described 11 findings in the survey ...

Aug. 10, 2021 — The NASA Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft relocatable lander to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in the mid-2030s; it will be the first mission to explore the surface ...

Dragonfly, arriving on Titan in 2034, will be the first rotorcraft to explore another planet, studying its unique chemistry for life’s origins. NASA and ESA's mission collects Martian surface ...