Gravity Assist: Why Icy Moons are So Juicy, with Athena Coustenis

Grav­i­ty Assist: Why Icy Moons are So Juicy, with Athena Coustenis



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For decades, moons of the out­er solar sys­tem have proven fas­ci­nat­ing sub­jects for sci­en­tists inter­est­ed in the search for life. Forty years ago this year, NASA’s Voy­ager 1 space­craft flew by Saturn’s moon Titan and took the first close images, reveal­ing a thick orange-col­ored atmos­phere that is the most Earth-like in the solar sys­tem. NASA’s Cassi­ni probe then dropped off a lan­der at Titan called Huy­gens in 2004, and stud­ied Titan in detail dur­ing its 13 years at Sat­urn. Now, NASA is prepar­ing to launch the rotor­craft mis­sion Drag­on­fly to Titan in the 2020s. But Titan is just one inter­est­ing moon. The Euro­pean Space Agency’s upcom­ing JUpiter ICy moons Explor­er (JUICE) mis­sion will study Ganymede, Europa, and anoth­er moon of Jupiter called Cal­lis­to. Mean­while, NASA’s Europa Clip­per mis­sion will pro­vide com­ple­men­tary obser­va­tions of Europa.

Pro­duc­er Cred­it: Son­net Apple & Eliz­a­beth Landau
Music Cred­it: Uni­ver­sal Pro­duc­tion Music



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