{"id":278425,"date":"2024-04-17T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=330376"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:42:21","slug":"nasa-has-given-the-green-light-to-the-nuclear-powered-helicopter-dragonfly-to-explore-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nasa-has-given-the-green-light-to-the-nuclear-powered-helicopter-dragonfly-to-explore-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA has given the green light to the nuclear-powered helicopter Dragonfly to explore Titan."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Titan is about 1.2 billion kilometers away from Earth and is one of the most difficult bodies to explore in the solar system<\/a>, but it is a rarity that attracts scientific explorers despite the high cost of getting there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Titan is not only the largest moon of Saturn, but also the second largest in the solar system. <\/strong>It is also the only one of the two moons that has a substantial atmosphere denser than that of Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n

In addition, Titan is the dream of any organic chemist.<\/strong> Composed mainly of nitrogen, Titan’s atmosphere has significant amounts of methane.<\/p>\n\n\n

There will be much more than the current ~2.7%, but most of it has been converted by the Sun into complex hydrocarbons that form in the clouds and fall as rain on the surface to create lakes of methane, ethane, and other compounds.