NASA has revealed details on a space plane that could one day fly over Saturn’s moon Titan. Dubbed TitanAir, the craft would soar through the skies of the icy world before landing on its lake…
NASA has revealed details on a space plane that could one day fly over Saturn's moon Titan.
Dubbed TitanAir, the craft would soar through the skies of the icy world before landing on its lakes.TitanAir will explore Saturn's icy moon, TitanThe concept of TitanAir was selected earlier this month by Nasa as part of experimental space technology for study.Quinn Morley of Planet Enterprises in Gig Harbor, Washington, was the first to envision the concept.This icy world features a surface that is completely obscured by a hazy, golden atmosphere.
Quinn Morley explains: "This Titan Flyer concept aims to 'drink' in methane condensation and organic material through a permeable section of the leading edge wing skin. "Capillary features on the inside of the wing will collect this ingested material and combine it into a continuous fluid stream, which can then be routed to science instruments inside the flyer.
"To enable intermittent low altitude flight, the flyer will land on the seas of Titan like a flying boat - except 'boat' implies water, and on Titan, the lakes are made of methane. We're calling it a 'flying laker.'"
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