re: NASA to Announce New Solar System Mission / Edit: Helicopter on a moon of Saturn!!!

NASA selects the dragonfly probe for its next solar system exploration mission. It’ll be a quadcopter sent to Saturn’s moon Titan to explore and look for nerdy science shite.

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Dragonfly, as the mission is called, is capable of soaring across the skies of Titan and landing intermittently to take scientific measurements.

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Where a Mars rover is limited to inching forward over a decade or longer, for the Dragonfly team, Titan’s sky and the drone’s nuclear fuel source are the limit.

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