NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan

2019-08-03

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References:

[1] https://www.space.com/7103-titan-world-earth.html

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200961-titan-has-a-belt-of-ice-6300-kilometres-long-that-shouldnt-be-there/

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/science/cassini-grand-finale-saturn.html

[4] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/timeline/huygens_titan.html

[5] http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20190109.php

[6] http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lorenz.pdf

[7] /youtube/video/2lv6Vs12jLc

[8] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph241/jiang1/

[9] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1033397

[10] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/radioisotope-power-systems.pdf

[11] http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lorenz.pdf

[12] https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/whereistherovernow/

[13] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Forces/isq.html

[14] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/grand-finale/overview/

[15] http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lorenz.pdf

[16] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-000-how-and-why-machines-work-spring-2002/study-materials/TurbulentFlow.pdf

[17] https://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/pubs/DetersAnandaSelig-2014-AIAA-2014-2151.pdf

[18] http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/docs/34_03-Lorenz.pdf

[19] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-dragonfly-will-fly-around-titan-looking-for-origins-signs-of-life

[20] https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/eposter/1958.pdf

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