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Old September 19th 19, 04:40 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Scott Kozel
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Default Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To AMoon Of Saturn

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 11:24:55 AM UTC-4, David Spain wrote:
On 2019-09-18 9:19 AM, Scott Kozel wrote:

I saw an article that said that the atmospheric density at the surface is
2 times that of Earth, the gravity is 1/3 that of Earth, and that a
human could devise wings and be able to fly like a bird.


The project team's most recent paper says atmospheric density is 4x
Earth at Sea Level, viscosity is 3x smaller than Earth (be careful of
propeller speed) and gravity is 1/7 of Earth's.


Getting down toward the temperature of LOX, so a human would have a hard
time surviving there!

"Daytime" surface illumination is 1000x less than Earth or 1000x full
moonlight predominately in red and near IR light, thus a human explorer
would get a largely dim B&W experience w/o a headlight.


The surface photos from Huygens seemed brighter and more colorful than that.