SciShow Space: We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! | SciShow News

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Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: NASA is sending a robot to Saturn’s giant moon Titan and instead of landing, orbiting, or driving when it gets there, this mission will fly. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-dragonfly-will-fly-around-titan-looking-for-origins-signs-of-life http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lorenz.pdf https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/in-depth/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/agu-ra062319.php https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0687-6 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~showman/publications/mitri-etal-2007-lakes.pdf https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/1477.pdf ------- Images: http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/#Gallery https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/868/titan-and-dione/?category=moons/saturn-moons_titan https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/208/peering-through-titans-haze/?category=moons/saturn-moons_titan https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/904/cassini-reveals-surprises-with-titans-lakes/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-mysterious-lakes-on-saturns-moon-titan https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/870/views-of-titan-from-different-altitudes/?category=moons/saturn-moons_titan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini_Saturn_Orbit_Insertion.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huygens_surface_color_sr.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA20713-Titan-SaturnMoon-LabeledFeaturesIAU-June2015.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selk_crater_on_Titan.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30695 https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/osiris-rex-debuts-new-bennu-images sa.gov/image-feature/jpl/jupiter-marble https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041028.html


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