NASA is Sending a Drone to Titan!

The NASA Dragonfly mission on Titan will launch in 2027. This could be a brand new way to explore other planets and moons in our solar system. What will NASA expect to find on Titan?

[mikehall]

Rovers still have a place on bodies without an atmosphere

[alexandrahlavna-evvo]

Yayayyy Titan. One of the coolest moons in our solar system ❤

[kevinfidler]

If, of course, it has an atmosphere sufficiency dense. There are not many rocks out there that have an atmosphere.

[steve]

Slated to arrive in 2034. Sure hope I'll see it!!!

[zeblonewell]

See his suit still hanging up like a scarecrow.

[LightIsAWaveNotAParticle]

Rovers also have the ability to hold alot more instruments too though.

[asmith]

Meanwhile Russia are sending tanks to the moon to annex 'their land' because they've been able to see it in the sky for a long time.

[BAPK]

Theoretically, couldnt NASA make a rocket drone to land on Mars, to pick up the lil Rover and then bring him home? Would be poetic

[aamnahsaeed]

That will be really cool if they actually FIND life there!!

[jaradpalmer]

As long as they get the atmosphere pressure right 👍

[jeremydenn]

Why not both. So the dron has a garage you know so in case it needs to be fixed im sure they could have a system so it could repair itself?? Do you think that could be possible? Thanks very much for your short.

[DadPool]

Drones are the way forward it always has been it would work out being a cheaper option for NASA to land on other moons and planets

[atombomb]

They better put bump rings around the props then so we don't have another ingenuity drone situation.

[pattisweet]

We see some important details because of Rovers!

[brentneumeyer]

Too cool, but what is the life expense for the rotors?

[lanfear]

So how would the drone re-charge given no sunlight on Titan. Onboard mini nuclear reactor?

[christiancrawford]

They should make a whole army of drones, ship them off to different planets to speed up the time and the research of our galaxy and planets and just keep building on the foundation and then some architecture with some robots to start building so by the time we get there, everything will be made by robots

[trumps-not-rightfor-us]

Well land a lit match on it and watch it go pop

[alizaidanthamyeez]

I’m somewhat upset that you didn’t mention the previous landing on Titan

[salmonellq]

Such a jinx to name it after the most icky bug we got here at home