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• Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No no, it’s cooler than that. We tried out aviation on Mars to make sure we figured out how to do aviation on Titan.

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  • happydoors@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Goddamn that’s so fucking cool

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ngl I’m fucking stoked about the potential exploration of the Jovian moons

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Incidentally, that mission was one of those surprising successes. The drone they sent was really barebones so it could tag along on another mission. Nobody expected it to work all that well. It ended up working incredibly well and got used far beyond its planned mission until its rotor blades broke.

  Now the team gets to build a real one.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah its a great story. I watched the Veritasium vid about it and its so much cooler when you hear the backstory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vUNgRdB4o

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