An artist of dragonfly rotcraft on the surface of Titan
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Griben
NASA’s Dragonfly Mission is due to land on Titan in 2034, which gives us an unprecedented look at the largest moon of Saturn-but it may also have to dodge the wind-powered rolling boulder.
The mission, which will be launched in 2028, includes a “rotorraft” that will detect the moon from the sky. Thanks to the Cassini Orbiter and Hugees probe, we have only one up-close glimpse in Titan, which reached the surface in 2005. That mission revealed the round boulder as well as radar-ujjwal areas …
