What liquid is on Titan?
methane
Titan may have volcanic activity as well, but with liquid water “lava” instead of molten rock. Titan’s surface is sculpted by flowing methane and ethane, which carves river channels and fills great lakes with liquid natural gas.
Can you swim in liquid methane?
The density of liquid methane is much, much lower than water, so you wouldn’t be as buoyant. Swimming on Earth is easy because humans aren’t as dense as water. In Titan’s lakes, your body would be much more dense than the liquid methane you’d be attempting to swim in. It would feel as if you were made of stone.
Can the Titan be heated?
Yes, Titan will probably warm up and probably not be swallowed by the Sun so it will still be there. It doesn’t need much warming before Titan will lose its methane lakes.
Can we drink Titan water?
Titan is going to have methane and ethane tainting the ice. And Enceladus and Europa are going to be all kinds of salts and possibly magnesium sulphate, or epsom salts if it’s hydrated. So if you drink that water you’ll be trotting off to the loo quite soon.
What made methane on Titan?
“Parts of the clathrate crust might be warmed from time to time by ‘cryovolcanic’ activity on the moon, causing it to release its methane into the atmosphere. These outbursts could produce temporary flows of liquid methane on the surface, accounting for the river-like features seen on Titan’s surface.
Can a space submarine be used on Titan?
NASA’s Testing a Space Submarine to Use in Titan’s Seas. It Will Be Cool. It Won’t Be Easy. 2. 12. 18 by Victor Tangermann NASA’s Testing a Space Submarine to Use in Titan’s Seas. It Will Be Cool. It Won’t Be Easy. We all live on a Titan submarine. 2. 12. 18 by Victor Tangermann
Could a submarine explore the Moon’s oceans?
The submarine would probe the freezing liquid methane and ethane oceans that cover the moon ‘s surface, beaming back valuable data to Earth, cryogenics engineer Jason Hartwig announced at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium last week.
How would an autonomous submarine communicate with Earth?
The tech blueprints of the autonomous submarine include a huge communications ‘fin’ on its back that would let it communicate directly with receivers on Earth, covering a distance of around 1,429 million kilometres (886 million miles).