John and Shannon tackle a listener question about Zircon and then discuss the possibility of flying a drone on Titan. Shannon also ponders how long to wait for late students on field trips.
- Silicate Minerals
- Nesosilicates
- Brilliance, Luster, and Fire
- Mohs Scale
- Zircon
- Zonation
- Uranium-Lead Dating
- Laser Ablation
- Detrital zircon geochronology
- Tishomingo Granite
- Jack Hills Zircon
- Drones on Titan from one of our favorite authors! Thanks to listener Jonathan for sending this our way.
- Lorenz, R.D. et al., Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander Concept for Scientific Exploration at Tital. Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest. 2017.
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