Should we live on Mars or Titan?
Mars seems like a more plausible short-term prospect due mainly to its nearness, but Titan may ultimately be the more valuable long-term option due to its nitrogen and its radiation protection. The biggest obstacle of living on Titan is bound to be it’s insane cold. People say space is cold, but space is a vacuum.
Is Titan smaller than Earth?
Because Titan is less massive than Earth, its gravity doesn’t hold onto its gaseous envelope as tightly, so the atmosphere extends to an altitude 10 times higher than Earth’s—nearly 370 miles (600 kilometers) into space.
What planet is the easiest to colonize?
Venus has certain similarities to Earth which, if not for the hostile conditions, might make colonization easier in many respects in comparison with other possible destinations. These similarities, and its proximity, have led Venus to be called Earth’s “sister planet”.
Is Titan’s atmosphere breathable?
Titan doesn’t have a breathable atmosphere. It’s mostly nitrogen and methane and the surface temperature is almost -300F. FYI, liquid nitrogen has a temp of -320F so on a cold day it could rain nitrogen.
Can humans colonize Titan?
Robert Zubrin has pointed out that Titan possesses an abundance of all the elements necessary to support life, saying “In certain ways, Titan is the most hospitable extraterrestrial world within our solar system for human colonization.” The atmosphere contains plentiful nitrogen and methane.
Why is Titan unique?
Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. This mammoth moon is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, and it’s the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid, including rivers, lakes and seas, on its surface.
Is Titan or Mars bigger?
Saturn’s Titan has an atmosphere denser than Earth’s, yet Titan is a smaller body than Mars. But since Titan began with a proportionally greater volatile budget than Earth or Mars, atmospheric pressure on its surface remains nearly 1.5 times that of Earth’s.