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Dragonfly thermal development test model at APL's Titan Chamber

Dragonfly thermal development test model at APL's Titan Chamber
Dragonfly thermal development test model at APL's Titan Chamber The full-scale Thermal Development Test Model of NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft stands in front of the Titan Chamber at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The model is used to verify the thermal performance of the Dragonfly lander under the cryogenic surface conditions it will encounter on Saturn's moon Titan, where temperatures average around minus 179 degrees Celsius. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL