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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by actualdc1 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:58AM (#18947616)
When did we start calling them drones instead of probes?
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by oliveshell on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:09AM (#18947663)
We didn’t.

This is a multicopter design that would be able to fly and hover in Titan’s thick atmosphere.

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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by maxxxxx on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:08AM (#18947660)
Because it will fly around.
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by mrfusion on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:16AM (#18947693)
The headline says they’ll land it though.
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by maxxxxx on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:14PM (#18947946)
It's going to land and then fly to a new location from time to time.
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:28AM (#18947745)
You’ve got to enter the atmosphere and come to a stop before you can deploy a drone on another world I would think (Venus notwithstanding).
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by kolinko on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:21PM (#18949254)
If it flies like a drone, it's fair to call it a drone.
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