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NASA to study Saturn's moon Titan for signs of life

  • NASA is preparing to launch Dragonfly, an 8-bladed rotorcraft in 2027, to study Saturn's largest moon Titan in-depth and search for the building blocks of life.
  • Cassini spacecraft had previously captured an image of the Saturn-facing side of Titan, which is tidally locked and faces the gas giant in the same way as Earth's Moon.
  • Saturn's largest moon Titan, discovered 368 years ago by Galileo, has an earthlike cycle of liquids raining from clouds, flowing across its icy surface, filling lakes and seas, and evaporating back into the sky.
  • Titan's thick atmosphere suggests that the moon formed early in our solar system's history.

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