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NASA excitedly confirms it will fly a sci-fi craft on distant moon
NASA announced its unprecedented Dragonfly mission — which will fly a car-sized craft with eight spinning rotors around Saturn's moon Titan — is confirmed for flight. The mission, in advanced stages of its design and fabrication, has an approved budget, ride (a heavy-lift rocket), and launch date in 2028.
NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan
NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft.
Dragonfly: NASA Just Confirmed The Most Exciting Space Mission Of Your Lifetime
Mission to explore the surface of the only moon in the solar system with an Earth-like atmosphere will launch in 2028 and arrive at Saturn's giant moon in 2034.
NASA’s Titan Mission: Dragonfly Expedition for Scientific Discovery
NASA eagerly awaited inclusion in the president’s fiscal year 2025 budget request, hoping to secure funding for its ambitious missions, including one targeting Saturn’s Moon Titan. Titan, with its unique characteristics,
NASA’s Dragonfly mission gets the green light to search for life on Titan
In a remarkable development, NASA has given the green light to the Dragonfly mission, a revolutionary rotorcraft designed to investigate the complex chemistry of Saturn's moon Titan.
6 stunning images taken from spacecrafts shared by NASA
This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016. This is the Apollo 11 landing site, as imaged by the LROC camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus could support life—researchers are working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons—more than any other planet in the solar system—but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears ...
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Why there may be oceans inside dwarf planets beyond Pluto—and what this means for the likely abundance of life
Moreover, water and trace components from this internal ocean were sampled by the Cassini spacecraft. Its measurements suggested Enceladus's ocean water must have reacted with warm rock below the ...
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Kingdom of Saturn: Cassini's Epic Quest
Cassini-Huygens spent more than 13 years in wildly varied orbits around Saturn, allowing the spacecraft to pass near many of its moons, as well as execute a soft-landing of its Huygens lander on ...
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Hidden ocean beneath Saturn's moon Mimas discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
Recent findings from data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal the presence of a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Mimas. Mimas, known for its resemblance to the "Death ...
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NASA names Aadya Karthik as “Power to Explore” finalist
Indian American student explored the legacy left behind by Cassini, a spacecraft that focused on exploring Saturn’s moons ...
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NASA to send spacecraft orbiter to Jupiter’s moon to study possible extraterrestrial
NASA partnered with the Open University in the U.K., the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Leipzig in ...
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How We Could Detect Life on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Though the Cassini engineers didn’t anticipate analyzing ice grains that Enceladus was actively emitting, they did pack a dust analyzer on the spacecraft. This instrument measured the emitted ice ...
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Cassini's view of Saturn
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
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Solar Eclipses To Be Made On Demand By New Spacecraft
The trick is that they won't be waiting for the moon to be in just the right place, but will use one spacecraft with a round shield to cast a shadow over the special sensors of a second craft.
The farthest-away pictures of Earth ever taken
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