Titan Definition and 42 Threads

Like many I’ve been captivated by the Titan story. I’m wondering a few things: 1. Was a shock wave cause by the implosion? 2. Would marine life have been killed similarly to “fishing w/ dynamite”? Kill radius? 3. A TV talking head claimed the inside of the vessel would have heated to “a temp...

... could inhabit? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/ I'm thinking, look at all the 'fossil fuel', actually hydrocarbons. Send the petrochemical industry first so they can plasticize the moon. :-p:oldbiggrin: Actually, GCRs are fairly well characterized. Doesn't even have to...

Titan's geology (involving a lot of organic molecules) is briefly described and possible appproaches to its exploration are discussed, in this NY Times article.

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Not personally, of course... or not yet? The Dragonfly mission was selected as fourth mission in the New Frontiers program (the previous missions were New Horizons, Juno, and OSIRIS-REx). Dragonfly is a helicopter that can fly in the dense atmosphere and low gravity of Saturn's moon Titan. The...

Earth and Titan are the only objects in the Solar System with stable liquids on its surface. Earth has water oceans, lakes, rivers and rain, Titan has methane/ethane oceans, lakes, rivers and rain. Earth has seasons, and so does Titan. They are just much longer as Saturn's orbital period is 29.5...

Using the now-complete Cassini data set, astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180106190439.htm I found this fascinating I hope others do.

NASA selected two finalists for the next round of the New Frontiers program, missions with a cost below $850 million. Both get funding to further refine the proposals, in early 2019 one of them will be selected. CAESAR wants to go back to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, previously visited by the...

I'm a petroleum engineer, so this is outside of my wheelhouse... I'm also a fairly avid metal worker and fabricator. Also I ask this question out of a curiosity, not because I'm building a rack or basing a financial decision off of the verdict of any resulting calculations. I feel like the "max...

Hi everyone, I have created a simulation of the major bodies in the Solar System, using the exact positions, velocities, and masses etc. at midnight on Jan 10 (as provided by the NASA HORIZONS project). Using Newtonian gravity I numerically simulate the forces between all the bodies (with a...

I've read a few articles claiming that Titan will be the most reasonable place for humans to move once the Earth is burned to a crisp by our red giant sun in a few billion years. Even if the temperature does in fact become habitable on Titan, how great could it be living on a moon of some giant...

I had a thought and was wondering if it's viable to detecting whether or not life exists in Titan's hydrocarbon seas, whether we get direct evidence or not. Titan lakes are hydrocarbons, which likes to create twisted polymer chains. Nature (lightning, cosmic rays...) should produce polymers...

If a methane-filled planet or moon like Titan was pulled toward a star, as the methane warmed and became gaseous, would it be possible to ignite it, converting the methane oceans to H2O with a CO2 atmosphere, which could in turn cause photosynthesis to naturally occur? If it's possible, it...

Life on Earth uses water as a solvent, but scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life existing in non-aqueous environments. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has seas of liquid methane, and scientists at Cornell wanted to test whether structures similar to cell membranes could...

So, I bought a copy of "Command and Control" and I found out that a made for TV movie about this incident called "Disaster at Silo 7" came out on VHS format and is pretty hard to find. Amazon had 4 copies but 40 dollars for a pretty old VHS tape that probably has low quality is not something I...

If Titan's hydrocarbon seas were seeded with tardigrades, would the tardigrades survive and thrive?

Water is incredible. We see lakes of hydrocarbons on Titan and they remind us of water lakes on Earth, so we postulate that an entirely difference sort of life might thrive there. But do liquid hydrocarbons really have what it takes to do all the things that water does? Here's my question...

Homework Statement Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere, which is 95% nitrogen molecules (N2), similar to Earth’s atmosphere. At Saturn’s distance from the Sun, the temperature of the atmosphere is only 95 K (−180◦ C), and the molecules have an average...

Check out the University of Arizona's Huygen's Titan Descent Movie Garth

If Mars' mass is .1 Earths and the pressure of its atmosphere is .6 kPa then why is Titan's atmosphere 147 kpa when its mass is .02 Earths? Apparently mass is not much of a factor in determining a planet's atmosphere.

Titan has rivers of liquid methane creeping in an atmosphere of mostly nitrogen. The lack of oxygen prevents the planet from being ridiculously unstable. Here’s my question -- If an asteroid rich in oxygen (or H2O) crashes into Titan, could the oxygen present in the projectile be enough to...

Hello! I am an undergrad at the University of Calgary. Lately I have been reading about Saturn's satellite Titan and all of the new data from the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe. Ever since 6th grade when I did a school project on Titan it has been blasting my mind. A moon with an...

Hello, I'm new here, and I really don't know much about astrophysics so would appreciate it if your replies were as simple as possible I've read that scientists are hopeful to find life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, because the planet resembles Earth in its earlier stages. I have a few...

Can Titan substain human life? Answer: no. The temperature on Titan is a freezing -179 degrees C, or 290 degrees F. But unlike other moons, Titan, in fact has known bodies of water on it. Which is amazing. But sadly, if you ever lived to stand on Titan, the pressure would literally bust...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/lake-of-petrole.html

If you could be there to have a look, what would their color be? How transparent would they be? What would the waves be like in the lower gravity?

Doesn't the fact that Titan is full of hydrocarbons kinda prove the Abiotic oil theory?

Hey guys. I posted here to find out how to put the below functions into the Ti-89 Titanium. And how to insert values into them. I know there are some smart people here so I decided ask for some help. Help is much appreciated! Thanks! :biggrin...

I know that in 2005 the Heuygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's biggest Moon. What did we find out?

Dune-boarding anyone?! Saturn's moon Titan has dunes [Friday, May 5, 2006 Posted: 1611 GMT (0011 HKT)] http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/05/05/titan.dunes.reut/index.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050917/sc_space/shorelinespottedonsaturnsmoontitan;_ylt=AooGDIS6P7vTgcNnutq1cVGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

New images from Titan! Have you seen new images of Titan?! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1310 http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_1.html#subhead2

http://www.fileplace.info/14012005/3697.jpg This creature has been spotted by the Huygens probe in the surface of Titan... Now is clear that the next objective of such abject monsters will be the invasion of Earth. I think that I'm going to hide myself in my underground hideaway...

Reference: http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=43676&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Anybody else see this http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/titan_mysteries_041028.html Seems Titans clouds arn't what they expected.

BBC article today closest image of Titan, 750 miles atmosphere fairly transparent, bluish surface features visible, but no lakes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3953187.stm

here is an article posted yesterday (Friday) http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=96361 what other articles do you have about this? a flyby of Titan by the Cassini craft releasing a small probe, Huygens, intended to parachute to surface (possibly liquid) Cassini will come within...

From; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/titan/images/PIA06404.jpg&type=image “A bright cloud of methane particles is apparent in all three images near the south pole. It's persistence over an extensive range of colors indicates that these cloud particles are...

http://www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=196 enjoy

http://space.com/images/031014_huygens_02.jpg http://space.com/scienceastronomy/titan_probes_040203.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3158496.stm