https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-finalists-for-2020-deep-space-planetary-mission-picked-by-nasa/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-finalists-for-2020-deep-space-planetary-mission-picked-by-nasa/#comment-1031508 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:07:48 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49335#comment-1031508 A drone in Titan sounds very much harder than a comet sample return. Hayabusa has already done it, Osiris is doing it in nine months. Flying around in the cold thick atmosphere of Titan ten times further away when at the closest, would be much more exotic. It’s great that NASA is aiming at the outer Solar system in either case, but I bet the comet is what will be chosen. Now they know exactly what to look for, it would be a much more certain success than the Titan drone. And samples keep on giving in the labs.

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