00:00What exactly is Dragonfly supposed to do when it arrives on Titan in 2034?
00:05Because just flying around and taking pictures would be a bit too little for a billion dollar mission.
00:11Titan is covered with organic molecules.
00:14So, carbon compounds whose complexity somewhat resembles the chemistry from which life originated on Earth.
00:21Dragonfly is supposed to analyze exactly these substances.
00:25Not from orbit, not from a distance, but directly on site.
00:29It lands, takes samples from sand, rocks or frozen deposits and analyzes them in the onboard laboratory.
00:36The central question is, how complex is Titan's organic chemistry really?
00:41Are there perhaps even molecules there that could be considered precursors to biological processes?
