We're driving over around Mars, and we're looking at all these sort of inorganic rock minerals,searching for any organic molecules that may be trapped inside them. Whereas on Titan, organics are everywhere -Melissa Trainer
This LPI is more science and less engineering than the last one I put up. Which because the Cassini mission was so crazy good, and a little time has past, means this LPI is packed with good slides.
Complex chemistry. If I tried to rank the complexity of atmospheres, Titan, Earth, and Venus, I couldn't because Venus hasn't been studied enough, but Titan has, and is more complex than Earth. This is a big part of why Titan is irresistible. It's un-Earth-like traits and Earthlike traits combine to make it attractive and scientifically usable.
- Slides kick off early at 9:00. Pretty must every slide is lovely and informative.
- At 18:00 there is a simple slide, but it makes me think. Titan is the only world that rains to a surface aside Earth. It has winds comparable to Earth. Yet some worlds like Triton and Europa are cratered about as much.
- Slide at 25:40 she repeats the bit about wanting to see what happens when an impact packs hot organics into Titans surface. I'm hearing that bit repeated a lot from the Dragonfly science team so we can take a flagrant-hint about where Dragonfly will be looking to go. At 33:20, the name of the crater is 'Selk'.
- At 35:10 and after, Dragonfly's planned route is made explicit.
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