3322: Dragonfly

Dragonfly

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Title text: I'm excited for Dragonfly, because on the list of places in the solar system that I desperately want more pictures from, 'Titan's surface' is right up there at the top with 'Jupiter's atmosphere.'

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Explanation

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Dragonfly is a NASA mission to send an aircraft to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, planned to be launched in 2028. This would make Titan the third celestial body to have a flying vehicle/helicopter on it, after Earth and Mars.

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Places in the solar system where helicopters can work [2 tick boxes across and 4 tick boxes down, left column to right column] Earth [tick], Mars [tick], Venus, Titan Soon!, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

[Caption below panel] When Dragonfly reaches Titan in 2034, we'll go from 25% to 37% on the solar system helicopter achievement checklist.

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Discussion

First :D The Black Hat Guy (talk) 20:39, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

s3c0nd p0st. 73.132.167.116 20:40, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Thirdsies! 7amiþ = moi.__init__(t, c) 20:44, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

4 -- somefan (talk | contribs) 20:44, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

F!r5t proper edit! 2A00:23C6:E352:D301:F015:9866:95F2:954E 20:48, 9 November 2026 (UTC) [phobos] Why does the link to earth include a focke wulf 190 in the editing bit? 2A00:23C6:E352:D301:F015:9866:95F2:954E 20:55, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Titan isn't considered a planet according to the relatively well-known 2006 IAU definition. (Sorry, Pluto!) Would linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical definition of planet be helpful to help explain why it could be so considered? Davidhbrown (talk) 21:15, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
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