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 ...
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