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Josh Dinner

Saturn moon Titan could hold the clues to life's origin. This NASA drone could find them

a small uncrewed helicopter flies above a sandy planet's surface

The fourth in a line of groundbreaking NASA missions that could redefine how we understand life in the universe is set to launch in 2027. 

NASA's Dragonfly drone is headed for Saturn's largest moon, Titan, an active, icy world with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere and underground liquid-water oceans, where the skies rain methane to fill lakes and flowing rivers on the surface. Dragonfly is poised to get an up-close look at all of it, and possibly discover clues to the origins of life on the moon.

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