NASA’s next mission will go where some spacecraft have gone before. The two finalists in the agency’s selection process will return to either Saturn’s moon Titan or comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, NASA announced in a press teleconference on December 20.
The Dragonfly mission would launch a drone-like craft to Saturn’s largest moon in 2025 that would land in 2034.
NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission showed that Titan has lakes and rivers of liquid ethane and methane, and may have chemistry that is conducive to life.“We can test how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed…
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