Our guest is Dr. Elizabeth 'Zibi' Turtle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator (PI) of NASA's Dragonfly mission. This exciting mission from NASA's New Frontiers Program is a dual-quadcopter, rotorcraft lander that will travel to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, to explore its strange environment: methane clouds, salty oceans, and seas of liquid ethane and methane.
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Ask An Astrobiologist: Episode 56
Soaring Through the Clouds of Titan with Dragonfly
Featuring Dr. Elizabeth 'Zibi' Turtle (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
Hosted by Dr. Graham Lau (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
Production Assistants:
Sarah Treadwell (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
Anurup Mohanty (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
Mariam Naseem (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)
Directed by Mike Toillion (NASA Astrobiology Program)
Illustrations by Melissa Flower ()
Music & Animation by Mike Toillion (NASA Astrobiology Program)