Applications Open! NASA Dragonfly Student and Early Career Investigator Program

Submitted by Ariadna S. Rubio Lebrón on 2 March 2023 - 11:30am

Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a dense atmosphere, which supports an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, lakes and seas. Complex organic surface materials preserve, in a deep freeze, the types of organic chemicals that were present on Earth before life developed. Titan's icy crust floats atop an interior liquid water ocean. Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander (an octocopter) that will explore a variety of locations on Titan.

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Marcel Agüeros: The junction of world-class astronomy and passion for diversity

Submitted by Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo on 16 June 2016 - 10:51pm

Dr. Marcel Agüeros

It’s that time of the year again: the smell of charcoal, children gleefully splashing water at the beach, frozen lemonades, and endless warm nights staring at the mystifying skies… Did you know that some of the stars you see are bigger and brighter than our sun? That some of them don't exist anymore since their light travels millions of years to reach us? Astronomy, one of the oldest sciences, helps us understand objects and matter outside the Earth's atmosphere—stars, planets, comets, galaxies and black holes—and their physical and chemical properties.

Dr. Marcel Agüeros has made astronomy his life's work and passion.

His Astronomical Journey