https://us.freshnews87.com/its-official-nasas-sending-a-mission-to-titan-a-top-candidate-for-alien-life/
“It’s actually easier to fly on Titan,” Elizabeth Turtle, the mission’s principal investigator and a researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference Thursday. That world’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’
s and its gravity is weak.
The craft has to be able to maneuver on its own, however. Light signals from Earth take 43 minutes to reach Titan, making Dragonfly much more complicated than a standard drone.
Scientists had to develop a navigation system that will enable the spacecraft to identify hazards and fly and land autonomously.
10 years to get there?
Please send me SMS to my grave, how it goes!
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