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Before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft soars on Titan, model is tested on Earth

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" ...

Flight engineers give NASA's Dragonfly lift

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented ...
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NASA says Titan lacks an ocean, but has slushy ice that could support life

NASA’s latest look at Saturn’s largest moon has upended one of planetary science’s favorite assumptions: Titan probably does not hide a single, global ocean of liquid water beneath its crust. Instead, ...
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Saturn’s largest moon Titan may not have large ocean like previously thought

Saturn’s largest moon Titan has been thought to have a large ocean below its surface. This discovery was made in 2008 by the Cassini mission. However, the Jet Propulsion Lab as been analyzing that ...
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On a Saturn moon, chemicals can do things they can't on Earth

Titan's cold atmosphere — filled with nitrogen and methane — may be similar to what Earth was like billions of years ago. Credit: Jenny McElligott / eMITS illustration Some substances that don't mix ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

NASA study reveals Saturn’s biggest moon does not have a global ocean

By a small margin, Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system, and is also the only moon with a thick atmosphere.
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Scientists rule out a hidden ocean on Titan, but there’s still hope for discovering life under the ice

An image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Titan in front of Saturn and its rings. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI) A fresh analysis of tidal perturbations on Titan challenges a long-held ...
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Saturn's moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as long suspected, new study suggests

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of ...