Speaker
Dr
Sarah Horst
(Johns Hopkins University)
Description
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique in our solar system. Below Titan's thick organic haze layer, rivers of methane carve channels into an icy bedrock and flow into large hydrocarbons seas. Across the landscape, water ice mountains and extensive organic sand dune fields are simultaneously alien and reminiscent of Earth. Titan’s lake mottled surface and thick, organic rich atmosphere may be an ideal setting for life as we do not know it and there is certainly much yet to be learned about our own home from the study of Titan. NASA’s Dragonfly mission will explore the surface of Titan using a dual quadcopter and reveal the answers to many questions we have about Titan.
Primary author
Dr
Sarah Horst
(Johns Hopkins University)
