Friday, 13 January 2012

An Aerial Drone That Could Recon the Skies Over Titan


Drones: they’re not just for controversial cross-border airstrikes anymore. Physicist Jason Barnes has designed a robotic aircraft that could cruise the methane skies of Saturn’s moon Titan almost indefinitely, beaming data and images back to Earth and terminating with extreme prejudice any terrorist threats it encounters there (we made that last part up).

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/aerial-drone-concept-could-recon-skies-over-titan-indefinitely

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