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Zibi Turtle tours Titan, discusses Dragonfly mission during TED talk – The Hub at Johns Hopkins
During virtual address, the planetary scientist discusses the environment of Saturn’s largest moon and the ambitious APL-built rotocraft mission to explore it
In the video, Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle appears on screen and her words cut through the silence evocatively.
“Picture a world with a variety of landforms,” Turtle says. “It has a dense atmosphere within which rains sweep across its surface. It has mountains and plains; rivers, lakes and seas; sand dunes, and some impact craters. Sounds like Earth, right? This is Titan.”
Could there actually be life on this very Earth-like moon? Here’s the trail-blazing mission that we’re launching to find out: h…
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