Congratulations to the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter team on the first powered flight on another planet!
How far could robotic rotorcraft like Ingenuity take us in space exploration? Far. Very far.
Let’s talk about titans and dragonflies. 1/4
How far could robotic rotorcraft like Ingenuity take us in space exploration? Far. Very far.
Let’s talk about titans and dragonflies. 1/4
Saturn’s moon Titan is bigger than Mercury! With a soupy atmosphere thicker than Earth's and only 1/7th the gravity, it’s the perfect place to explore with a flying rover. 2/4
The surface is loaded with enigmatic features like dunes of weird carbonaceous material and mountains of ice-rock. It even has boulders and pebbles created by liquid methane, as seen in this image from @esa's Huygens probe that landed on Titan. 3/4 
Our #Dragonfly mission will launch later this decade to deliver an eight-rotor lander the size of the Perseverance rover to the intriguing surface of Titan, where it will fly from spot to spot in search of the moon’s secrets: dragonfly.jhuapl.edu 4/4
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