Publication Date:
2019-08-13
Description:
Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission, selected as a finalist in NASA's New Frontiers Program, that is designed to sample materials and determine the surface composition in different geologic settings on Titan. This revolutionary mission concept would explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, to investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and to search for chemical signatures that could be indicative of water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life. Here we describe Dragonfly's capabilities to determine the composition of a variety of surface units on Titan, from elemental components to complex organic molecules. The compositional investigation ncludes characterization of local surface environments and finely sampled materials. The Dragonfly flexible sampling approach can robustly accommodate materials from Titan's most intriguing surface environments.
Keywords:
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration
Type:
GSFC-E-DAA-TN53846
,
Lunar andPlanetary Science Conference; Mar 19, 2018 - Mar 23, 2018; The Woodlands, TX; United States
Format:
application/pdf
