Flexibility for Titan Exploration: The Titan Helicopter

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Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001iaop.work...53l&link_type=abstract

Forum on Innovative Approaches to Outer Planetary Exploration 2001-2020, p. 53

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Titan, Flying Platforms, Satellite Surfaces, Mission Planning, Helicopters, Surface Properties, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Thematic Mapping, Space Exploration

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Future Titan exploration should focus on what Cassini will not be able to provide, such as detailed chemical analysis of surface materials (especially where abundant organics have interacted with transient exposures of liquid water), subsurface mapping including the benthic topography of hydrocarbon lakes, high-resolution (m-scale) optical images of the spectacular landscape taken from beneath the blurring haze layers, and meteorological and geophysical monitoring. Neither an orbiter nor a single lander can adequately meet all these objectives. A rover is an uncertain prospect for Titan's environment, so some kind of aerial platform is required. Additional information is contained in the original extended abstract.

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