- Attachment: Titan Dione Saturn - 3 image
- Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon with a significant atmosphere. The atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, similar to Earth’s, but it is 150% thicker.
- Titan is 1,600 miles in diameter and larger than the planet Mercury. It orbits Saturn in 16 days. The surface temperature is - 270 degrees Fahrenheit. The stones on its surface are solid water ice. The liquid lakes on the surface are liquid methane.
- On Earth we breath oxygen, internally it reacts with glucose to gives us energy and then we breath out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- On Titan life would breath hydrogen which would react with acetylene and the life would breath out methane into the atmosphere. So, could methane be the medium of new life forms on the moon Titan?
- Outside of Earth , Titan is the only place with an atmosphere and a liquid weather cycle. Evaporation, rain, liquid lakes. But, it’s methane instead of water.
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See Review #1144 to learn more about Titan.
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