NASA Is Sending a Rotorcraft to Titan in 2027. Here's Where It Will Land. - ScienceAlert

Smothered in a hazy atmosphere that hides shallow lakes of liquid hydrocarbons, Titan is one weird world we're dying to look at up close.

"Dragonfly will land in an equatorial, dry region of Titan – a frigid, thick-atmosphere, hydrocarbon world," says planetary scientist Léa Bonnefoy, from Cornell University in New York.

"Over the next several years, we are going to see a lot of attention paid to the Selk crater region," says planetary scientist Alex Hayes, from Cornell University.

"Dragonfly is going to finally show us what the region – and Titan – looks like," says Bonnefoy.

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