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SHIRTS!
Saturn moons shirt:
https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-the-moons-of-saturn-shirt
Jupiter moons shirt:
https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-galilean-moons-shirt
Casey’s Print Store
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/miski/
LINKS!
Follow Dr. Sarah Hörst on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/planetdr.bsky.social
Sarah’s research:
https://www.sarahhorst.com/
Dragonfly mission:
https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/
3D print your own Dragonfly:
https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/dragonfly/
Johns Hopkins APL on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/johnshopkinsapl/
NASA Solar System on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nasasolarsystem/
~~SOURCES~~
Titan's Properties
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/pdfs/titan_poster.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160000577/downloads/20160000577.pdf
Liquid methane properties (density, viscosity)
https://websites.isae-supaero.fr/IMG/pdf/14-ippw9-titan_dorrington-lorenz_corrected_version.pdf
“We have liquid methane here on Earth. We can make it.”
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/natural-gas-safety
Giant Impact Hypothesis
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/collision-may-have-formed-the-moon-in-mere-hours-simulations-reveal/
Water in the outer solar system
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/space-snow-visible-in-bright-baby-solar-system/
Ice on the moon
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ice-confirmed-at-the-moons-poles/
“We design our own Titan specific tools.”
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
Tidally locked worlds and their skies
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question58.html
The Badass Saturn Photo
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/spectacular-eclipses-in-the-saturn-system/
Info on extracting oxygen gas from planets that have CO2 but no O2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment
“We’ve never observed lightning on Titan.”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006496
Someday the Ice Moons Might Melt!
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97GL52843
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/540/1/1329/8137882
“Sand is a size of rock, it is not a composition of rock.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand
On Titan...ice is a rock
https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/titan/facts/
Radio waves move pretty easily on Titan
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
Iapetus and it's bug windshield
https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1893
Brown dwarfs and fusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0980
Jupiter and Heat
https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0606
Life and Viruses
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8376694/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20198436/
Titan's areas of exploration
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
Saturn moons shirt:
https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-the-moons-of-saturn-shirt
Jupiter moons shirt:
https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-galilean-moons-shirt
Casey’s Print Store
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/miski/
LINKS!
Follow Dr. Sarah Hörst on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/planetdr.bsky.social
Sarah’s research:
https://www.sarahhorst.com/
Dragonfly mission:
https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/
3D print your own Dragonfly:
https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/dragonfly/
Johns Hopkins APL on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/johnshopkinsapl/
NASA Solar System on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nasasolarsystem/
~~SOURCES~~
Titan's Properties
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/pdfs/titan_poster.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160000577/downloads/20160000577.pdf
Liquid methane properties (density, viscosity)
https://websites.isae-supaero.fr/IMG/pdf/14-ippw9-titan_dorrington-lorenz_corrected_version.pdf
“We have liquid methane here on Earth. We can make it.”
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/natural-gas-safety
Giant Impact Hypothesis
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/collision-may-have-formed-the-moon-in-mere-hours-simulations-reveal/
Water in the outer solar system
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/space-snow-visible-in-bright-baby-solar-system/
Ice on the moon
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ice-confirmed-at-the-moons-poles/
“We design our own Titan specific tools.”
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
Tidally locked worlds and their skies
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question58.html
The Badass Saturn Photo
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/spectacular-eclipses-in-the-saturn-system/
Info on extracting oxygen gas from planets that have CO2 but no O2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment
“We’ve never observed lightning on Titan.”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006496
Someday the Ice Moons Might Melt!
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97GL52843
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/540/1/1329/8137882
“Sand is a size of rock, it is not a composition of rock.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand
On Titan...ice is a rock
https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/titan/facts/
Radio waves move pretty easily on Titan
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
Iapetus and it's bug windshield
https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1893
Brown dwarfs and fusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0980
Jupiter and Heat
https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0606
Life and Viruses
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8376694/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20198436/
Titan's areas of exploration
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan/
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