SXSW 2020
Destination Titan: NASA's Dragonfly Mission
Description:
Flying a drone over the exotic landscape of an alien moon? Sampling organic sands that could contain the chemical building blocks of life? This isn't science fiction — it's Dragonfly, NASA's mission to Saturn's moon Titan. We don't know the steps that transformed chemistry to biology on Earth, but we do know that a lot of that "prebiotic" chemistry is happening on Titan today. This panel will discuss how the robotic Dragonfly rotorcraft — a bold, game-changing way to explore other worlds in our solar system — will cover hundreds of miles and explore dozens of locations across Titan to unravel some of the most critical mysteries of the universe, including, possibly, the keys to our origins.
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Takeaways
- What can we learn about life on Earth by exploring other planets?
- Is it possible to fly on another planet?
- Do other worlds hold the ingredients of life?
Speakers
- Elizabeth Turtle, Dragonfly Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Melissa Trainer, Dragonfly Deputy Principal Investigator, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Douglas Adams, Dragonfly Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Ralph Lorenz, Dragonfly Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Organizer
Michael Buckley, Senior Public Affairs Officer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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