The American space agency NASA is planning to send a drone to search for life on Saturn’s moon, Titan, the sixth planet in our solar system.
The Dragonfly probe will examine Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which is approximately 745 million miles away from Earth. The spacecraft is expected to launch in July 2028 and will reach Titan by 2034.
NASA announced the mission in 2019, and now, within four years, the plan is set to become a reality. At the time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stated that with the Dragonfly mission, NASA would once again achieve something no one else could.
He emphasized that research on this mysterious ocean world could bring revolutionary changes to our understanding of life in the universe. According to NASA, Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system, and its atmosphere, like Earth’s, is nitrogen-based.
