NASA is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and expanding the limits of
technology. I am proud to announce that
our next New Frontiers mission,
Dragonfly, will explore Saturn's largest
moon Titan.
Dragonfly will be the first drone lander
with the capability to fly over a
hundred miles through Titan's thick
atmosphere. Titan is unlike any other
place in our solar system and the most
comparable to early Earth. The
instruments on board will help us
investigate organic chemistry and search
for chemical signatures of past or even
present life. So we have on Titan
an opportunity to observe the processes
that were present on early Earth when
life began to form. And possibly even
conditions that may be able to harbor
life today. One of the things that is particularly
exciting about this mission is that we
can do the very detailed chemical
measurements, but be able to put them in the context of Titan as a system.
It's the science that really motivates us to do this exciting and difficult mission.
Go Dragonfly!
 
