Sunday, July 24, 2022

"I like to call it, carcinogenic sand, it's made entirely of organic molecules." -Catherine Neish 


Catherine Neish is an engineer. Among other differences, engineers tend to have slides of a lot more group photos than scientists do. In general if you watch a lot of LPI's, you get a strong feel for engineer videos, and this certainly is a great one.

This is a teaser for the upcoming dragonfly mission. A probe that was way too good to pass up, New-Frontiers, cheap and novel, and going to Titan!

We all have our favorites, and when picking worlds that make me glassy-eyed Titan and Europa are my top two. They are just so dynamic with complex chemistry, and potentially even more complex chemistry. Starting at 21:36 you can really see what I mean if you don't already know. Titan has very fun chemistry involved. What's possible and what is happening seem to be lining up from what we've seen so far, and that is even more exciting, because what's possible can get a lot more weird.

  • Everyone take a moment and look at the slide at 24:20. That takes a lot out of reddittor guesswork.
  • At 28:15 the slide is funny. 
  • At 34:00 The "sand seas near salt crater and silk." Commit this bit of poetry to memory.  

Until Dragonfly actually deploys, I cannot imagine a better reference video. 

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