Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission proposed to the New Frontiers Program that is designed to take advantage of Titan's environment to be able to sample materials and determine the surface composition in different geologic settings. This revolutionary mission concept would provide the capability to explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, to investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and even to search for chemical signatures that could be indicative of water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life.
Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission proposed to the New Frontiers Program that is designed to take advantage of Titan's environment to be able to sample materials and determine the surface composition in different geologic settings. This revolutionary mission concept would provide the capability to explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, to investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and even to search for chemical signatures that could be indicative of water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life.
Related Publications
2024.
"Unveiling the Nitrogen Chemistry of Titan with the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer: Experimental Focus on Amines and Amides.",
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry,
8
(9):
1832-1846
[10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00143]
[Journal Article/Letter]
2021.
"Science Goals and Objectives for the Dragonfly Titan Rotorcraft Relocatable Lander.",
The Planetary Science Journal,
2
(4):
130
[10.3847/psj/abfdcf]
[Journal Article/Letter]
2023.
"Evaluation of the Interference of Tenax®TA Adsorbent with Dimethylformamide Dimethyl Acetal Reagent for Gas Chromatography-Dragonfly Mass Spectrometry and Future Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in situ Analysis.",
Journal of Chromatography A,464388
[10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464388]
[Journal Article/Letter]
2023.
"Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry of Cryogenic Samples on the Dragonfly Mission.",
2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference,
[10.1109/aero55745.2023.10115534]
[Proceedings]
2023.
"Comparison of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH), trimethylsulfonium hydroxide (TMSH), and trimethylphenylammonium hydroxide (TMPAH) thermochemolysis for in situ space analysis of organic molecules in planetary environments.",
Talanta,
257
124283
[10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124283]
[Journal Article/Letter]
