{"id":177284,"date":"2023-12-02T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-will-land-daring-spacecraft-on-a-world-800-million-miles-away"},"modified":"2023-12-02T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:24:03","slug":"nasa-will-land-daring-spacecraft-on-a-world-800-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-will-land-daring-spacecraft-on-a-world-800-million-miles-away","title":{"rendered":"NASA will land daring spacecraft on a world 800 million miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-will-land-daring-spacecraft-on-a-world-800-million-miles-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_self\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Dragonfly mission sounds like science fiction. But it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency will launch the car-sized craft, fitted with eight spinning rotors, to one of the most intriguing worlds in our solar system, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/saturn-most-moons-discovered\" target=\"_self\">Saturn<\/a>\u2019s ocean-and dune-covered moon, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/saturn-moon-titan-images\" target=\"_self\">Titan<\/a>. It\u2019s a frigid realm where methane, not water, fills lakes and seas, and where the dunes are teeming with the <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-mars-organic-material-rocks-discovery\" target=\"_self\">organic ingredients<\/a> needed for life (as we know it) to develop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/dragonfly\/nasas-dragonfly-to-proceed-with-final-mission-design-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">NASA determined that Dragonfly<\/a> aced its preliminary design stages, and on Nov. 28 gave the thumbs up for this \u201cdual-quadcopter\u201d endeavor to proceed to its final construction. The flying craft is uniquely designed for this mission, as it will explore hundreds of miles of Titan\u2019s terrain. Over a planned mission of close to three years, Dragonfly will take off and land at multiple sites as it investigates the \u201cprebiotic\u201d conditions that could have provided the brew for life to eventually form in our <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/mars-asteroid-jupiter-moons-space\" target=\"_self\">solar system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Dragonfly mission sounds like science fiction. But it\u2019s real. The space agency will launch the car-sized craft, fitted with eight spinning rotors, to one of the most intriguing worlds in our solar system, Saturn\u2019s ocean-and dune-covered moon, Titan. It\u2019s a frigid realm where methane, not water, fills lakes and seas, and where the dunes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177284","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}