Answering your Dumb Saturn Questions

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/