Questions tagged [titan]
Questions about Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
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Underground sea in Titan(Saturn's moon), water or hydrocarbons?
Is the underground sea on Titan formed of water or hydrocarbons. Is anyone certain?
I have read a lot of various documents from NASA and Cassini missions and Huygens missions, and I have become ...
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How did Arecibo detect methane lakes on Titan, and image Saturn's rings?
This answer to Farthest distance to a solar system object that's been measured by radar? mentions that Saturn's rings, and the Uncover Travel post Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico – The World’s ...
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What if the atmosphere of Titan were like the one on Venus?
The current mean temperature in Titan is −180 ºC (93 K), the same as in Saturn.
But I was wondering what would be the case if the atmosphere of Titan would be like the Venus atmosphere, whose ...
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Why the Circumstellar Habitable Zone is defined as it is, if life could be possible outside of it?
According to Circumstellar habitable zone
In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a ...
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What causes Titan a moon to have a denser atmosphere than that of a Mars?
I'm wondering about Mars and Titan. If Mars is larger than Titan how come it lost most of its atmosphere? Mars also has a magnetic field while Titan doesn't. Yet Titans atmospheric pressure on the ...
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How would humans with appropriate equipment navigate the surface of Saturn's moon Titan on foot? [closed]
Taking into account the physical characteristics of Titan (e.g. surface gravity, atmospheric pressure), what would be the most efficient method of motion for an astronaut to navigate the surface of ...
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Is Titan Better or Mars? [closed]
Isn't Titan better to colonize than Mars? It has a thick atmosphere which is made up of nitrogen like our planet's. It doesn't have a magnetic field, but it does get a type of protection from Saturn. ...
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Is it possible to see Saturn from Titan's surface, day and night?
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a thick atmosphere, similar to what our Earth's atmosphere was before life "appeared". It also orbits Saturn close enough to actually see it beautifully ...
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Say we were to bring Titan to Earth's orbit. How much would its atmospheric pressure change?
I've heard one of the reason why Titan has such a thick atmosphere is because of its really low temperature. So say that were were to magically bring Titan to the Same orbit as Earth, and the moon ...
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Did this paper just argue that there is surely life on Titan?
I just read the popular press version of a new paper, and now I have a question about Titan.
Here are some quotes from the pop article:
A rocky, ocean-bearing planet with more than 0.1 percent ...
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How bright would it be on the "face" of Titan
If you were planing a maned mission to Titan and wanted to find a landing site that would get the most visible light for the longest amount of time, your first logical choice would be the dark side of ...
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Why do certain moons have their rotational period equal to their orbital period?
Our moon and Saturn's moon, Titan, have this feature. Because of this we only observe one side (hemispere) of our moon. Why is this? What is the Newtonian or astrophysics that would explain this? ...
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What does "Active Weather Patterns" mean?
I just read that Cassini discovered titan had "active Weather patterns".
What does that mean?
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Are there other pictures of Titan surface from Huygens?
I can't find any other picture of the Titan surface from the Huygens probe than this one
Are there any? Are they not disclosed on purpose?
If this is the only one taken, why?
Titan surface http://i....
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Why does Titan have lower surface gravity than the Moon when Titan is more massive?
Reading on Wikipedia I saw that Titan is 80% more massive than the earth's moon but has only 85% the surface gravity. Why is this?
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