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Anyone else that was impressed by these images? I wonder/dream what's underneath those clouds on Titan. Scientists have a lot of hope for interesting discoveries made for Titan. When are the rovers going there?
Anyone else that was impressed by these images? I wonder/dream what's underneath those clouds on Titan. Scientists have a lot of hope for interesting discoveries made for Titan. When are the rovers going there?
This is the most famous photo of the surface of Titan, taken by the Huygens lander:
The Dragonfly mission is scheduled for a 2027 launch and a 2034 arrival at Titan. It will be rotorcraft (basically, a helicopter) powered by RTGs, allowing it to fly up to five miles from the landing site and thereby conduct various scientific experiments at different locations.
Anyone else that was impressed by these images? I wonder/dream what's underneath those clouds on Titan. Scientists have a lot of hope for interesting discoveries made for Titan. When are the rovers going there?
While I do agree Titan is a pretty cool moon in our solar system and should be explored, but because it's so cold, -290⁰F (-179°C), it would more amazing if Venus had a moon like Titan orbiting around it!
This is the most famous photo of the surface of Titan, taken by the Huygens lander:
The Dragonfly mission is scheduled for a 2027 launch and a 2034 arrival at Titan. It will be rotorcraft (basically, a helicopter) powered by RTGs, allowing it to fly up to five miles from the landing site and thereby conduct various scientific experiments at different locations.
That photo gives me goosebumps. The effort and execution required to take that photo and send it back home is among mankind's greatest accomplishments.
That photo gives me goosebumps. The effort and execution required to take that photo and send it back home is among mankind's greatest accomplishments.
I agree.
It's pretty amazing seeing photographs taken from the surfaces of planets and moons other than Earth.
It's also rather sobering to understand that if the Sun is a basketball located in New York, then Saturn (around which Titan revolves) is a marble nearly 800 feet from Earth ... while the nearest other star system (Alpha Centauri) is almost 1500 miles west of California in the Pacific Ocean.
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