Joe P
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From https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-frigid-skies-to-search-for-lifes-beginnings/
Hope I last at least another 15 years so I can see the results of this mission.
Joe
On Titan, Carl Sagan once wrote, “the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there, largely unaltered, deep-frozen, awaiting the chemists from Earth.” And chemists we will send—robotic ones, at least.
Today NASA announced its New Frontiers selection of a novel mission to Titan called Dragonfly, set to launch in 2026. “This revolutionary mission would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago,” said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine in a recorded statement. “A great nation does great things. We will launch Dragonfly to explore the frontiers of human knowledge for the benefit of all humanity.”
By the time Dragonfly reaches Titan in 2034, it will have been almost 30 years since Saturn’s satellite was last visited by a spacecraft: the hardy Huygens probe that operated for a few hours on the icy moon in January 2005. The wait, Dragonfly’s scientists say, will be worth it. “NASA has chosen to truly dare mighty things and to rigorously pursue the search for life on this beautiful and bizarre ocean world,” says Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist and Dragonfly team member at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Today NASA announced its New Frontiers selection of a novel mission to Titan called Dragonfly, set to launch in 2026. “This revolutionary mission would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago,” said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine in a recorded statement. “A great nation does great things. We will launch Dragonfly to explore the frontiers of human knowledge for the benefit of all humanity.”
By the time Dragonfly reaches Titan in 2034, it will have been almost 30 years since Saturn’s satellite was last visited by a spacecraft: the hardy Huygens probe that operated for a few hours on the icy moon in January 2005. The wait, Dragonfly’s scientists say, will be worth it. “NASA has chosen to truly dare mighty things and to rigorously pursue the search for life on this beautiful and bizarre ocean world,” says Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist and Dragonfly team member at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Hope I last at least another 15 years so I can see the results of this mission.
Joe