Titan: Space experts think Saturn’s moon could be ‘like Earth’
Could a moon near Saturn be the most Earth-like planet out there?
That’s what scientists from Nasa are looking into, as they study Saturn’s largest moon – Titan. They’re trying to work out how its landscape formed.
They say that Titan has seasons, rains, rivers and even seas. But before you get too excited, it won’t be water that is sloshing around, but liquid methane, and the gust winds will be nitrogen!
Planetary experts from the University of Stanford in California – alongside colleagues from Nasa – are studying Titan’s landscape closely – as it’s seen as a potential place for humans to set up a future base.
Using information from the Cassini mission, the team have been working on a project to understand how seasonal changes could have shaped a very Earth-like structure of mountains, ice, sand dunes and wide plains rather than just a windy dusty desert.
On Earth, rocks and minerals get eroded by water and end up moving around the planet as tiny grains. They are moved by winds and rivers to new places where they settle and turn back into rocks.
Those rocks then continue forming, being eroded, and reforming, over millions of years to form the landscapes we all see.
Experts think the same thing could be happening on Titan – just with very different minerals.
Mathieu Lapôtre, from Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences said: “Our model adds a unifying framework that allows us to understand how all of these sedimentary environments work together.
“If we understand how the different pieces of the puzzle fit together…. then we can start using the landforms left behind… to say something about the climate or the geological history of Titan – and how they could impact the prospect for life on Titan.”
See more here: bbc.co.uk
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James
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Methane turns to a liquid at around -295 degrees Fahrenheit. Liquid oxygen is highly explosive when it mixes with liquid methane (NFPA 1991). Therefore, the surface of Titan, being just below negative 300 degrees, and filled with a substance that reacts explosively with the oxygen we need to breathe, makes Titan one of the last places in the Solar system that any human would want to be. Of course, all this is merely speculation as they don’t really know these things. Nothing has ever been to Titan, and it’s not likely anything will be able to go anytime soon. Our machines just aren’t built to survive it.
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Tom
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Cool.
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Tom O
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Fascinating, really, how they can examine some evidence, interpolate it into a landscape, and in so doing, provide a reason for their research grants to be continued, even though their “research” will never be more than speculation.
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Mark Tapley
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Another NASA money laundering program. Here’s more of what we’re getting for that tax money:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pZOEuvHvC8rZ/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NXaj3Crq1Ce0/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ML1I0cx7Xi7W/
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Peter Connett
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That picture that fronts this Article has got to be the most phony picture ever. To anyone who has eyes to see. Even by nasa standards. One ? I have is how are atmospheres “protected ” from the great “space” vacuum? Let me guess… gravity.
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