Okay. No, you start. Who's starting? After you, Emily?

No, really. I think you're starting. Okay. Fine.

You're listening to shortwave from NPR.

Hey, Emily. Hey, NPR, science correspondent, Jeff

from Field at our designated taping time. How are you?

Yeah, fancy ring into you here. Uh, yeah. No, I'm doing all right.

I'm sitting down here. My daughter's princess tent in my basement.

Uh, for optimal sound recording conditions.

It turns out a princess tent's a pretty good place to record an episode of shortwave.

Actually, anyway, look, remember when we used to go to places and report on stuff?

Oh, do I? I miss it. I miss getting in a car and seeing people.

Yeah, me too. And last year before the pandemic, I actually got to do that.

Hmm. Okay. Check, check, check. We are rocking aim.

I drove out to Johns Hopkins University, applied physics laboratory in Maryland.

Oh, thank God. Nobody can see my car.

I'm in some mess.

And I met a bunch of scientists and engineers who are planning the ultimate road trip

over a billion kilometers, but one of Saturn's moons, Titan.

Titan, yes! Oh, the number one moon, according to our episode that's objectively ranked all the

moons in our solar system. I'm so excited for this. Great. They're going to Titan?

Absolutely. And yeah, you're right. This mission to Titan is every bit as cool as the moon itself.

Because, Emily, this is no lander. This isn't some rover with little wheels that go,

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