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What If Humans Could Live on Titan, Saturn's Moon?

"Imagine standing on the surface of  Titan , Saturn's largest moon. The sky glows orange, methane lakes  stretch beyond the horizon, and the air is so thick you could almost fly with wings strapped to your arms. But could humans really live here?" Saturn -- image credit: NASA Titan: Earth's Distant Cousin * Titan is the only moon with a thick atmosphere --- and it's mostly nitrogen, just like Earth. * It's the only world besides Earth with stable liquids on its surface. Instead of water, Titan's rivers, lakes, and seas are filled with liquid methane and ethane. * The atmosphere is rich in complex chemistry, producing "organic" molecules made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. In other words, Titan doesn't just look alien -- it might also hold clues to how life begins. A laboratory for the Origins of Life Scientists believe Titan could be the best place in the solar system to study prebiotic chemistry -- the kind of chemistry that may ...

Did you know?

1. The sperm is the smallest human cell and the ovum or egg is the largest human cell.


2.Out of the million eggs women possess during birth, only about 300 to 400 will ovulate before menopause.


On the other hand, males produce more than 500 billion sperms in their life time.

3.Female uterus contains one of the strongest muscles of the human body.

4. Azospermia refers to the failure of spermatogenesis.

5.spermarche is the first ejaculation of the semen.

6.castration or surgical removal of testis is known as orchidectomy.

7.enlargement of prostate gland is called prostatitis and can lead to difficulty in URINATION.

8.Monozygotic (identical) twins are produced when a single fertilized egg splits into two during the first cleavage .they are of the same sex  , look alike and share the same Gene's.

9.Dizygotic (Fraternal) twins are produced when two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperms. The twins may be of the same sex or different sex and are non-identical.


10.Siamese (United) twins are the conjoined twins who are joined during birth.

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