Description

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.

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin