Saturday 14 February 2015

NASA releases details of Titan submarine concept



Now that NASA has got the hang of planetary rovers, the space agency is looking at sending submarines into space around the year 2040. At the recent 2015 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium in Cocoa Beach, Florida, NASA scientists and engineers presented a study of the Titan Submarine Phase I Conceptual Design, which outlines a possible mission to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, where the unmanned submersible would explore the seas of liquid hydrocarbons at the Titanian poles... Continue Reading NASA releases details of Titan submarine concept

Section: Space

Tags: NASA, Saturn, Solar System, Spacecraft, Submarine, Titan, Unmanned

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