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NASA is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and expanding the limits of

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technology. I am proud to announce that
our next New Frontiers mission,

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Dragonfly, will explore Saturn's largest
moon Titan.

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Dragonfly will be the first drone lander
with the capability to fly over a

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hundred miles through Titan's thick
atmosphere. Titan is unlike any other

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place in our solar system and the most
comparable to early Earth. The

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instruments on board will help us
investigate organic chemistry and search

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for chemical signatures of past or even
present life. So we have on Titan

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an opportunity to observe the processes
that were present on early Earth when

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life began to form. And possibly even
conditions that may be able to harbor

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life today. One of the things that is particularly

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exciting about this mission is that we
can do the very detailed chemical

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measurements, but be able to put them in the context of Titan as a system.

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It's the science that really motivates us to do this exciting and difficult mission.