把你的名字送上土卫六：NASA开放报名至2027年1月15日，名字将随Dragonfly旋翼机2028年启程、2034年抵达Titan
美国国家航空航天局（NASA）10月29日宣布，公众即日起可报名把自己的名字送上土星最大的卫星土卫六 Titan：报名者的名字将被刻入一枚微芯片，随「蜻蜓号」Dragonfly 旋翼机飞往 Titan，报名者还会收到一张个性化的电子登机牌留念。
报名截止时间为 2027 年 1 月 15 日美东时间晚 11 时 59 分。有意者可通过 NASA「把名字送上蜻蜓号」报名页面 提交名字。
NASA 科学任务理事会副主管 Nicky Fox 说：「NASA 的 Dragonfly 任务会让你大开眼界。通过执行有史以来第一个旋翼机科学任务，NASA 将探索土星最大的卫星 Titan，寻找这个与我们自身世界最相似的遥远世界的可居住性迹象。我们很高兴带上全人类一起踏上这趟一生一次的旅程。」
Dragonfly 目前正在位于 Maryland 州 Laurel 的 Johns Hopkins 应用物理实验室（APL）组装，按计划 2028 年发射，2034 年抵达 Titan。抵达后，它将在这颗卫星的不同地点之间飞行，探索其多样的环境，寻找关于生命前化学（prebiotic chemistry）的线索，帮助科学家理解生命所需的原料与条件。
Titan 拥有浓厚的大气、液态甲烷的河流与湖泊、连绵的沙丘，以及富含有机物的地貌。Dragonfly 由 APL 在 Elizabeth Turtle 担任首席研究员的带领下设计建造，是 NASA「新疆界」（New Frontiers）计划的第四个任务，由位于 Alabama 州 Huntsville 的 Marshall 航天飞行中心为 NASA 科学任务理事会管理。
Send Your Name to Titan: NASA Opens Sign-Ups for the Dragonfly Mission Through January 15, 2027
NASA announced on October 29 that the public can now send their names to Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Names submitted will be included on a microchip aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft, and participants will receive a personalized digital boarding pass commemorating their place on the mission.
The public can secure a place on Dragonfly's passenger list until 11:59 p.m. EST on January 15, 2027, through NASA's Send Your Name with Dragonfly page.
"NASA's Dragonfly mission will simply blow your mind," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "By flying the first-ever rotorcraft science mission, NASA will explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan, as we search for signs of habitability on a distant world that is most similar to our own. We are excited to bring humanity along for the journey of a lifetime."
The Dragonfly rotorcraft is currently being assembled at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Scheduled to launch in 2028, it will travel to Titan, a world with a thick atmosphere, rivers and lakes of liquid methane, sweeping dunes and a landscape rich in organic material. After arriving in 2034, Dragonfly will fly to different locations on the moon, exploring Titan's diverse environments and searching for clues about prebiotic chemistry.
Dragonfly is being designed and built under the direction of APL, which leads the mission for NASA, with Elizabeth Turtle of APL as principal investigator. It is the fourth mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
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图片来源：图：「蜻蜓号」Dragonfly 旋翼机在土卫六 Titan 表面上空飞行的艺术概念图。图片来源：美国国家航空航天局（NASA）／Johns Hopkins APL／Steve Gribben，公共领域。 / Artist's concept of NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft over the surface of Titan. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, public domain.
