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| This would be the surface of Titan. |
Yes, it is neither a love boat, or a pirate ship or a yacht of a billionaire with beautiful half-naked women sunbathing ... Not so!
NASA selected as one of their next three goals a sailboat to sail the seas of methane on Titan, one of the giant moons of Saturn.
Mare The Titan Explorer or Time, as it begins to be called, could be released in 2016, according to initial estimates and reach the moon in 2023, to descend by parachute into the second largest lake in the northern region of Titan.
will be the first to explore a liquid surface, because the intention is that the space ship sailing the ocean of methane, ethane in the complex moon has an atmosphere within which nubada and decreased Huygens probe, which provided data on the interior of Saturn's moon which suggest today in the first interplanetary navigation.
Titan is today to 1,318 million miles from Earth. Saturn is a large planet with a radius of 58,232 kilometers and a circumference of 365,882 miles.
has 53 moons. Titan is one of them, with 5,150 kilometers is the second largest in the solar system. Its atmosphere is 95% nitrogen with traces of methane and extends 600 km above the surface, compared to 60 in the atmosphere.
The mission will lead researcher Ellen Stofan, of Proxemy Research and the ship will be built by Lockheed Marin Md., while the instruments be provided by the NASA Goddard.
"If there was ever a time to demonstrate the ability to think differently, is this," said John Sommerer, Laboratory of Applied Physicis at Goddard, to quote the slogan that motivated the new choice of objectives NASA.
The other two are: a terrestrial laboratory to explore the Martian interior and a probe to land several times in a comet to study its changes as it approaches the Sun
Each project will now receive 3 million dollars and next year will be selected to boot first. The total cost will be about $ 425 million, excluding launch vehicle.
Source: elcolombiano.com
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