An artist’s impression of the Dragonfly rotorcraft on the floor of Titan
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
NASA’s Dragonfly mission is because of land on Titan in 2034, giving us an unprecedented take a look at Saturn’s largest moon – however it might additionally must dodge wind-driven rolling boulders.
The mission, which can launch in 2028, features a “rotorcraft” that may discover the moon from the skies. We’ve had just one up-close glimpse at Titan, due to the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe, which reached the floor in 2005. That mission revealed fields of rounded boulders in addition to radar-bright…
