Astrophysics & Planetary Sciences Colloquium

Dragonfly: In Situ Exploration of Titan's Prebiotic Chemistry and Habitability

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Abstract:
	Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an ocean world with a dense
atmosphere, abundant complex organic material on its icy surface, and a
liquid-water ocean in its interior.  The joint NASA-ESA Cassini- Huygens
mission revealed Titan to be surprisingly Earth-like, with active
geological processes and opportunities for organic material to have mixed
with liquid water on the surface in the past.  These attributes make Titan
a singular destination to seek answers to fundamental questions about what