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Searching For Alien Life

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Dragon Fly Is Going to Be a Bigger Thing Than Mars Helicopter

Dragon fly is a giant helicopter drone, kind of like the one sent to mars recently. It's going to be even cooler because the world it's going to on has low gravity. Titan is the closest known analogue we have to the early earth before life developed here. dragon fly will be fully immersed within this alien environment,. looking for compounds similar to those that might have supported the development of life here on earth and teaching us about habitability of other worlds.

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