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Dragonfly entry, descent, and landing concept of operations

Dragonfly entry, descent, and landing concept of operations
Dragonfly entry, descent, and landing concept of operations An illustration depicting NASA's Dragonfly entry, descent, and landing sequence at Saturn's moon Titan. The spacecraft will enter Titan's thick atmosphere protected by a heat shield, deploy a series of parachutes to slow its descent, and then separate from the backshell to fly autonomously to the surface under its own rotor power, guided by lidar systems. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL