• Presented by Hopkins at Home •
• Featuring Dr. Sarah M. Hörst, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Adjunct Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute •

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique in our solar system. Below Titan's thick organic haze layer, rivers of methane carve channels into an icy bedrock and flow into large hydrocarbon seas. Across the landscape, water ice mountains and extensive organic sand dune fields are simultaneously alien and reminiscent of Earth. Titan’s lake mottled surface and thick, organic-rich atmosphere may be an ideal setting for life as we do not know it, and there is certainly much yet to be learned about our own home from the study of Titan. In this free virtual lecture, Dr. Sarah M. Hörst shares how NASA’s Dragonfly mission will explore the surface of Titan using a dual quadcopter and reveal the answers to many questions we have about Titan.

Moderating our discussion is Kenneth E. Hibbard, Mission/Project Systems Engineer for the Dragonfly Mission.