New Dragonfly Mission Flying Landing Sequence Animation

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander is seen approaching Saturn’s exotic moon Titan in this animation. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry.

Animation credit: JHU-APL

[daylight]

So excited to see this greenlighted, Titan here we come!

[agirlhaunted]

Cool! Also I love the smooth animation

[mocko]

brilliant... I wish a drone like that!

[anands]

So *that's* why it's called a Dragonfly!

[Nothinglastsforever]

Looks pretty dry; I thought there's rivers of methane or are they only at specific geographical locations?

[corrysvang]

Could Tess resist on the Titan ... for a long time in the ice ??? We send a Drone / Rover in search of the Life / Path !!! ...

[mewmew]

this what I was thinking about and wondering why they doesn't send DRONE