Titan exploration beyond Cassini Options

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Beyond Cassini
Two proposed future Titan missions to be presented at the 2017 LPSC conference http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1958.pdf and http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/2306.pdf
promise to extend and enhance Cassini’s discoveries concerning this marvelous world.

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Safe landing spot...hmm. You'd need a pretty short-wavelength radar to find such a place that way, and the instrument would likely be power & mass prohibitive (unless you could also justify good science return from it somehow, which seems unlikely).

Sounds like you gotta use the imaging system; maybe have it start looking 30 min before 'bingo' touchdown time using stereo pairs to find a clear spot of minimum specific dimensions. Might be able to constrain slope as well that way, but that seems a bit difficult. Also, if it's flying in an area likely to have surface liquids it either has to be buoyant and survivable in that environment or be able to discriminate between a liquid & solid surface, which again seems challenging using even fairly advanced real-time AI imagery analysis.