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by actualdc1 2708 days ago
When did we start calling them drones instead of probes?
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We didn’t.

This is a multicopter design that would be able to fly and hover in Titan’s thick atmosphere.

Because it will fly around.
The headline says they’ll land it though.
It's going to land and then fly to a new location from time to time.
You’ve got to enter the atmosphere and come to a stop before you can deploy a drone on another world I would think (Venus notwithstanding).
If it flies like a drone, it's fair to call it a drone.