Titan Bumblebee : A 1kg Lander-Launched UAV Concept
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Saturn’s largest moon Titan [1] is one of the easiest places in the solar system for aerodynamic or buoyant flight: it has a thick, cold atmosphere with high molecular weight, and it has a low surface gravity. Titan has a varied landscape featuring lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, mountains, river channels, vast seas of organic sand dunes, craters, cryovolcanos and other features. It is an environment abundant in organic materials and thus for prebiotic synthesis. It is thus an attractive target for future solar system exploration, e.g. [2].
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