Saturn's moon Titan, larger than the planet Mercury and the only moon in our Solar System known to have a thick atmosphere, is one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth. Titan's frozen surface has rivers, lakes and seas of methane and ethane beneath its nitrogen-based hazy atmosphere.

Since Titan's temperature hovers around -290 ºF (-179 ºC) and its atmospheric pressure is 60 times greater than that of our planet, life would likely look very different from that on Earth. Our Dragonfly mission, which will not launch before July 2028 and arrive in the mid-2030s, will explore Titan and fly to many different locations to study whether they could potentially support life.

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Our Cassini spacecraft takes a look at the night side of Titan. The moon is backlit by the sun, which illuminates its violet atmosphere and yellow hazy clouds. Titan arcs from the bottom right in the first slide, upwards and to the bottom right in the second slide.