{"id":22629,"date":"2024-04-19T04:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22629"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:28:29","slug":"dragonfly-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dragonfly-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dragonfly Mission<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a &#8220;dual quadcopter&#8221; designed to fly across the <strong>surface of Titan<\/strong>, Saturn&#8217;s largest moon.<\/li>\n<li>It will explore a variety of locations on <strong>Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will spend most of its time on the <strong>moon\u2019s surface<\/strong> making science measurements.<\/li>\n<li>It will use a <strong>radioisotope power system<\/strong> like the Curiosity rover on Mars.<\/li>\n<li>Its flights, data transmission and most science operations will happen <strong>during the day<\/strong>, and it will have a lot of time to recharge during night on Titan.<\/li>\n<li>It is a rotorcraft, targeted to arrive at Titan in 2034, will fly to dozens of promising locations on the moon, looking for <strong>prebiotic chemical processes<\/strong> common on both Titan and the early Earth <strong>before life developed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It marks the <strong>first time NASA<\/strong> will fly a vehicle for science on another planetary body. The rotorcraft has eight rotors and flies like a large drone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Titan<\/h2>\n<p>Titan is Saturn\u2019s largest moon, Titan has an earthlike cycle of liquids flowing across its surface. It is the only moon with a thick atmosphere.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Prebiotic chemistry?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the study of how organic compounds formed and self-organized for the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-dragondly-mission-launch-9278180\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA says its futuristic Dragonfly mission will launch in 2028<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragonfly Mission is a &#8220;dual quadcopter&#8221; designed to fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn&#8217;s largest moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}