Called Dragonfly, the mission will carry an instrument called the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer to help shed light on prebiotic chemistry.
. So it’s only natural that scientists are excited to probe and poke the second-largest moon in the solar system.NASA will launch a mission to Titan in 2027 to better understand the development of life in the universe. The Dragonfly mission will carry the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer .
The rotorcraft will be equipped with DrACO - Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics - to help collect samples less than a gram in size, which will be drilled out of the surface of the Titan. Then the pieces will be brought inside the rotorcraft, where they will be measured by DraMS. is an instrument that analyzes the various chemical components of a sample by separating these components into their base molecules and passing them through sensors for identification.“DraMS is designed to look at the organic molecules that may be present on Titan, at their composition and distribution in different surface environments,” says Dr. Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist and one of the mission’s deputy principal investigators.
Organic molecules contain carbon and are used by all known forms of life. They are interested in understanding the formation of life because living and non-living processes can create them. DraMS was developed by the same team, which in part developed the Sample Analysis at Mars , thus building on the pre-existing technology that had been applied on the
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