Now, it’s Saturn turn to be explored?
11 Oct 2012 6:51 AM IST
While the rover Curiosity is driving almost flawlessly on Mars, scientists are proposing another exciting possibility for extraterrestrial exploration across a lake on Saturn’s largest moon Titan.
SENER, a private engineering and technology group, is partnering with Spain’s Centro de Astrobiologia to propose the Titan Lake In-situ Sampling Propeller Explorer, TALISE for short. ‘Talise’ is the Iroquois word for ‘beautiful water.’
TALISE is a boat probe that would navigate Ligeia Mare, a large lake on Titan, making extensive scientific analyses during the journey, the CNN reported.
Scientists involved have said the mission would be broken up into three phases and last six months to a year.
‘The principle objective shall be to characterise Titan’s environment, lakes and its terrain’s chemical composition, rich in hydrocarbons and nitrogen,’ the scientists wrote in an abstract presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in September.
SENER, a private engineering and technology group, is partnering with Spain’s Centro de Astrobiologia to propose the Titan Lake In-situ Sampling Propeller Explorer, TALISE for short. ‘Talise’ is the Iroquois word for ‘beautiful water.’
TALISE is a boat probe that would navigate Ligeia Mare, a large lake on Titan, making extensive scientific analyses during the journey, the CNN reported.
Scientists involved have said the mission would be broken up into three phases and last six months to a year.
‘The principle objective shall be to characterise Titan’s environment, lakes and its terrain’s chemical composition, rich in hydrocarbons and nitrogen,’ the scientists wrote in an abstract presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in September.
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