"NASA's Titan-bound instrument may uncover life's chemical origins"

NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan, will carry an instrument called the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS) to study the chemical makeup of the Titanian surface and search for evidence of prebiotic chemistry. DraMS will remotely study the chemical composition of samples from Titan's surface material, which will be drilled out by the Drill for Acquisition of Complex Organics (DrACO) and brought inside the lander's main body. DraMS will analyze the various chemical components of the samples by separating them into their base molecules and passing them through sensors for identification. The mission is set to launch in 2027 and arrive in the mid-2030s.