{"id":147890,"date":"2022-10-10T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:23:43","slug":"nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Titan Dragonfly will touch down on a field of dunes and shattered ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-titan-dragonfly-will-touch-down-on-a-field-of-dunes-and-shattered-ice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Dragonfly mission to Saturn\u2019s largest moon will touch down on a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to a new analysis of radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive in 2034 and explore Titan from the air. Its range will be far greater than that of a wheeled rover, with Dragonfly capable of covering around 10 miles (16 kilometers) in each half-hour flight, according to NASA. Over the span of its two-year mission it will explore an area hundreds of miles or kilometers across. However, before taking to the sky on its own, Dragonfly must first arrive on Titan under a parachute, soft-landing on frozen terrain that is hidden from easy viewing by the dense hydrocarbon smog that fills the moon\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Dragonfly mission to Saturn\u2019s largest moon will touch down on a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to a new analysis of radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft. Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive in 2034 and explore Titan from the air. Its range will be far greater [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}