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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by inamberclad on Saturday January 19, 2019 @02:22PM (#18948676)
0.14g surface gravity and 1.45 times earth's atmospheric density might make this a very good way to get around.

Edit: The low wattage of RTGs strikes again. This thing will do one hop every Titan day (16 Earth days) [0].

Edit 2: I'm conflating atmospheric pressure and density. However, it appears to have a 98.4% nitrogen atmosphere, so that seems reasonable.

[0]: http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/What-Is-Dragonfly/

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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by wbl on Saturday January 19, 2019 @03:41PM (#18949050)
This is why we need the kilopower.
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