🧵 Titan
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:25:41 UTC No. 16459543
Let's discuss Titan. It's my favourite world in the Solar System.
>It's the only moon in the Solar System with a dense atmosphere, and the only other world other than Earth and Venus with a dense atmosphere
>It's the only other world in the Solar System with an atmosphere that is substantially thick, but that wouldn't crush humans due to high pressures like on Venus
>Titan's hazy upper atmosphere has a blue-ish hue similar to Earth, but the thick amber layer below is formed of complex organic molecules called tholins which form when sunlight interacts with methane and nitrogen particles
>This thick layer of tholins in the atmosphere blocks most sunlight, completely obscuring Titan's surface from space
>Titan is the only world in the Solar System other than Earth to have stable bodies of lakes and rivers on its surface
>These lakes stretch for hundreds or even thousands of kilometers and are composed of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, which can only remain in liquid form due to the extremely cold temperatures
>Titan even has a weather cycle similar to Earth, experiencing methane evaporating, condensing, and falling as rain, creating weather patterns and even cloud formations
>Titan's surface is made primarily of plains of organic-rich "sands", and dunes formed by winds that reach several meters high
>Due to the low gravity, several interesting phenomena arise:
>The atmosphere reaches very high into space and can be distinctly seperated into different layers
>The methane rain would fall very slowly, almost like snow on Earth
>Theoretically, a human with a set of wings might be able to fly on Titan
>The Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005 sent a descent probe to the surface of Titan, revealling an alien –yet eerily familiar-looking surface
>It's the only probe to have landed on the surface of a moon outside our own and sent back images to Earth
>NASA's Dragonfly mission is set to launch in 2028, sending a rotorcraft to Titan capable of flying across the surface
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:31:55 UTC No. 16459611
>>16459543
>The Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005 sent a descent probe to the surface of Titan, revealling an alien –yet eerily familiar-looking surface
Post some of these images someone pls
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:35:44 UTC No. 16459612
>>16459611
There's only one image.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:47:53 UTC No. 16459621
>no metals
>too cold
I wouldn't live there but that sure is a lot of methane
>>16459612
God damn every bit of land in the entire universe looks the exact same
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:05:10 UTC No. 16459739
>>16459621
star trek was right
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 11:30:09 UTC No. 16461981
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:18:40 UTC No. 16462067
>>16459543
>that wouldn't crush humans due to high pressures like on Venus
I can fix her
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:28:07 UTC No. 16462075
>>16459612
There's hundreds of images taken as it descended.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:07:11 UTC No. 16462180
>>16462075
Only one from the surface, but the descent pictures are cool too. I'm slightly disappointed there weren't any lakes in the vicinity, but Titan hadn't been mapped back then so it was a completely blind drop, right? I can't wait for Dragonfly bros
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:00:50 UTC No. 16462432
>>16461981
In English doc!!!
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 02:36:29 UTC No. 16463033
>>16459621
>God damn every bit of land in the entire universe looks the exact same
But what could be under their surfaces? Earth has so many elements right, could there be like miles long deposits of pure gold? Or oil from 10 billion years ago?
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 02:40:36 UTC No. 16463040
>>16462075
Those rivers? And what's on those mountains?
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 10:04:57 UTC No. 16463350
>>16463033
Titan farts out gas.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 16:45:48 UTC No. 16463756
>>16459621
Those rocks are probably made of oily waxy ice. The lakes might look nice and we haven't explored those.
>>16463033
>miles long deposits of pure gold
No. But, I'm gonna suggest that Venus could have large gold deposits. Because other stuff corrodes in Venus' atmosphere while gold doesn't leading to gold getting concentrated on the surface. This could potentially explain the 'snow' on Venus' high altitudes, but other explanations are way more likely. No sane geologist will suggest this, but we haven't explored those regions so no one can disprove me
>oil
It'd be solid, but almost definitely. We think there might be dunes made of hydrocarbons like napthalene. Same stuff in moth balls. It could be weird to muck about in because it's more insulating than earth sand, so electrostatic effects could be worse. Read, it could stick to stuff like styrofoam beads.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 17:16:00 UTC No. 16463806
>>16463756
>It could be weird to muck about in because it's more insulating than earth sand, so electrostatic effects could be worse. Read, it could stick to stuff like styrofoam beads.
Does NASA know about this? What if Dragonfly lands in it and gets covered to the point where it can no longer function?
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:08:24 UTC No. 16463954
>>16463756
>Venus could have large gold deposits
Next Up: A Trillionaire (in today's dollars) Proposes To His Bitch With A Wedding Band From The Planet Of Love
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:30:14 UTC No. 16463988
>>16459612
this is the coolest image
both litterally and figuratively
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:38:13 UTC No. 16463999
>>16463988
There's not enough probes going out to make more.
Mercury needs a picture like that.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:49:59 UTC No. 16464010
>>16463999
We need another Venus lander as well. I'd like a Triton lander at some point. Apparently it has a thin nitrogen atmosphere and sparse clouds.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 21:13:16 UTC No. 16464084
>>16464010
>another Venus lander as well
Venera 13 needs Russian Tom Hanks to step upand make their space program entertaining.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 19:38:33 UTC No. 16466314
When Dragonfly?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 01:01:35 UTC No. 16466641
>>16459543
If you moved it to our orbit it would evaporate like a fart
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 01:29:04 UTC No. 16466657
>>16466641
Is it a gas moon or something? no solid core?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 05:06:53 UTC No. 16466821
>>16466657
It has a core but it's not very dense, meaning it holds on to its atmosphere very weakly. Even as it sits that far from the sun, its atmosphere is being slowly being stripped (but also slowly being replenished due to outgassing and weathering). If it were close to the sun, the gas in the atmosphere would become too excited and escape the gravitational hold. Also, the liquid hydrocarbons on its surface would evaporate and a lot of the ice, which makes up most of its composition, would melt. For comparison, Titan is ever so slightly larger than Mercury, but has less than half its gravitational strength due to being mostly made of ice and having a rock core, whereas Mercury has a considerably large iron core. Some of this may be inaccurate but it's what I've gathered from reading.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:02:58 UTC No. 16467210
>>16466821
What if we collide titan with mercury
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 10:45:31 UTC No. 16468134
>>16462075
are those cities in the distance?
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:19:56 UTC No. 16469604
I'm gonna move to Titan.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:55:58 UTC No. 16469641
>>16469604
how much will the removal men cost? a couple billion?
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:03:09 UTC No. 16469642
>>16469641
Donkey mind, capable of donkey thought and action
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:41:06 UTC No. 16469722
>>16466641
It melts like chocolate on your tongue.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:48:47 UTC No. 16469881
>>16459621
>sure is a lot of methane
There are more hydrocarbons in the great lakes of Titan than we have oxygen on Earth to burn it with.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:19:12 UTC No. 16469975
>>16469881
>false colour
What does it look like in true colour?
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:36:58 UTC No. 16469999
>>16459621
>I mean what is with this this this flat horizon surface and also Rocks aaarh fuck me man
Sober up dude, sci-fi has put your expectation way up high
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:40:09 UTC No. 16470003
>>16469999
Holy quad fuck
Check em fellow titans. Will Def have myself some kind of alcoholic beverage for this. And titan.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:17:10 UTC No. 16470035
>>16470003
Titaneans*
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:24:58 UTC No. 16470042
>>16470035
Whatever fellow titties I'm at my fifth glass right now. 6th is on you.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:21:16 UTC No. 16470772
>>16469975
Assuming the pictures shown above are in tru colours, the landscape wold be fudge coloured. The hydrocarbon in liquid form is transparent, so you would see the bottom near the edges, and then it wpould be black due to other particular matter absorbing light. Radar data suggests there are waves so there will be some scattering.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:47:29 UTC No. 16471454
Titaneer here. AMA.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:48:48 UTC No. 16472363
>>16471454
Wrong, you're not from Titan. You would call yourself "Titaneans".
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:02:03 UTC No. 16472374
>>16471454
Do you identify with the SUN or SATURN?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:24:24 UTC No. 16474372
*farts*
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:42:09 UTC No. 16474512
>>16472374
trick question, saturn was a brown dwarf before it got captured by sol
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:56:22 UTC No. 16475745
Titan stinks