What will a human experienced while he is standing on the surface of the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, even with the protection of a crowded space? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to be addressed as William O Universetoday.com.
This study Has the potential to help scientists, engineers, mission planners and the public better understand the risks associated with sending people to distant worlds for a long time and how to develop technologies to reduce these risks.
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As O’hara notes, this is due to the limited literature, including news articles and scientific studies, with regard to sending people to Titan, including colonization. For the context, the surface temperature of Titan -179 degrees Celsius (-290 degrees Fahrenheit) is, the surface pressure of Titan is 1.5x The surface pressure of the earth and the surface force of Titan is slightly less than 14 percent of the surface of the earth.
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Although it is not mentioned in the study, the surface of Titan only receives about 0.1 percent of the light that the earth receives, which looks for Titan that receives only 1 percent of the light of the earth, whereby 90 percent of this number is reduced from Titan’s thick and blurred atmosphere.
For context this can be compared with approximately civil twist on earth, which occurs about ten minutes after sunset. This is in stark contrast with images sent back by the Huygens probe, which landed on Titan’s surface in January 2005 and showed a clear surface that was made of various techniques for image processing. That is why people would not experience the same lighting as the probe of Huygens gave the impression on the surface of Titan.
The study notes: “This study is the first attempt to collect what we know about Titan to actually estimate a person’s experience on the surface.
The results will inform future activities, including Surface Eva [extravehicular activity] Space package design, habitat design, virtual reality simulations and terrestrial analogue exploration. The following steps are to get from these work environments and possible dangers that must be tackled. “
This study comes when NASA is preparing to send its Dragonfly Quadcopter mission to land on Titan’s Surface and to “jump” over different regions to better understand the habitability potential of Titan, of which the diameter is about 50 percent larger than the moon of the earth.
Dragonfly is currently planned for launching in July 2028 and lands on the surface of Titan in 2034, which will be followed by a science phase that is planned for about 3.3 years. Together with imaging cameras, the scientific instruments of Dragonfly will comprise a mass spectrometer, Gamma-Röntgenspectrometer, neutron spectrometer and seismometer.
As this study notes, the literature of sending people to Titan is still limited, possibly due to the current focus where people are sent back to the moon and further to Mars.
Another reason can be the distance, because the spacecraft currently takes about six years to travel from Earth to Titan, so this would require significant logistical obstacles to accommodate people who travel so enormously and time.
He studies by stating: “These work benefits follow on efforts to fulfill adult concepts for human missions deeper in our solar system after the blueprints of NASA.”
What will people experience if they are on the surface of Titan in the coming years and decades? Only time will learn, and this is why we science!
As always, keep doing science and keep looking!
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