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NASA's Dragonfly — a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body — is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle shares how studying this mysterious moon that's thought to resemble the early Earth could bring us closer to understanding the habitability of other planets — and the origin of life itself.
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everyone says i am first
but who will be the last no one knows
Lord Frieza it is you! What’s up frieza. I heard you got resurrected or something like that. You look good
@Kermit The Frog i will kill that one piece of monkey you havent see 7 form of freeza
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You could be last, just gotta take the matter in your hands.
Congratulations for your successful sharing
Just in case things don’t work out on Earth…
@Jason Swanson ok dude lmao
@Jason Swanson what are you guys talking about?! This is the matrix cell of another cell of another cell. It never ends. Until the plasma event. Then all will be shown. Seen. Carry on.
Jason Swanson lmao
S. S. Touché’
They won’t work out on earth. People keep electing socialists into power. Socialists with nuclear weapons. It is insane to give people that much power over others.
Welp… it’ll be a luxury resort town for the rich and famous in a few hundred years. I’m excited though.
3 years estimated mission time? If you look at the mars rovers, this thing will surely do 15 😉
Mars doesn’t have sulphuric acid clouds, 90x earth’s surface pressure, and a 465°C average surface temp though
@Arif I think you’re thinking of venus, not titan
@Arif this is venus, Titan has 1.5 Bar of Nitrogen, low gravity and -180°C which is completely different, and i think much easier to cope than venus, on Titan your equipament tends to stay solid and cool, so you need isolation and a heat source for things that dont work well at low temperatures.
Mars rovers, I’m guessing you mean solar-powered Spirit & Opportunity. Curiosity, Perseverance and Dragonfly work on RTGs (plutonium “batteries”) so their lifespans are subject to a “charge” level.
I can’t wait to see what’s on titan! I’m personally very excited to see methane lakes and the overall landscape! I hope everything goes well for your team and the preparation of the mission!
yeah hope the cgi will be okay
@Michael Opitz i mean we already have great CGI. i’d be very happy to see that stuff even just in computer generated images. I really hope we get models of our solar system in 3D with HD textures to visit in VR at some point in my lifetime. It doesn’t need to be perfect replications. Just enough to give a good idea of the environment on each planet.
Asslam o Alaikum Brothers & Sisters!
That’s great! But bring some petrol, because my car drinks more than me.
I can’t wait for the science from this to become public information.
Feels weird watching a TED video that doesn’t have 1k likes comment. Feels weird being early.
I Am. Laura Lea. Wait they are saying we are from someone not Earth? Lmao. How will knowing this help in anyway?! The Earth is dying!
[generic comment to claim that “early” spot]
Bugger- I will be 76 by then if I haven’t popped my clogs!! Can’t you go a bit faster?
Hopefully you’ll stick around until we’ve had a closer look at Venus after the new signs of life there.
Also new, faster and cheaper rockets will be developed till then. So plenty of reason to stay optimistic but also stay healthy! 🙂
TED as it used to be. What a pleasant surprise! Thanks!
I lost it when she said octocopter
Lands in 2034?
Sadly, I may not live to see it.
Why does every scientist exploring space quote carl sagan?
FINALLY, SCIENCE!!!!! Thanks TED for coming back to reality.