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Dragonfly: A New Frontier on Titan
The next step in a lifetime of work exploring the unknown. A Legacy to Build Upon On October 15th, 1997 a NASA Flagship mission launched aboard a Titan IV-B rocket from Cape Canaveral on a 7 year cruise to Saturn. That mission was Cassini-Huygens. When Cassini reached Saturn it was only the 4th spacecraft to travel as far as Saturn and the first to orbit the planet. The mission, was by all accounts a significant success in robotic planetary exploration. In fact, given the

Kyle Averill
Jun 94 min read


Titan and the Dragonfly
The hazy golden atmosphere of Titan, target of the NASA New Frontiers Mission - Dragonfly. Credit: NASA Saturn's Largest Moon Saturn, roughly 886 million miles from the Sun, orbits our star with 293 moons, more than any other planet in our solar system. One of those moons has captured scientists' attention above all others. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is larger than Earth's moon, larger than the planet Mercury, and slightly smaller than Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. Ti

Kyle Averill
Apr 3, 20232 min read
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