Titan hydrocarbon ocean (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
I will continue with the theme of extraterrestrial lifeforms. And there is another place on the orbiter of Saturn, where could be very primitive lifeforms. But why there is no sign of life in that moon, what lays under red clouds? Or there is no sign of life at the dry surface. In this moon, the living organisms could be under the surface of this world hydrocarbon oceans.The answer would be that this moon’s hydrocarbon seas are so calm. There would be no place, where the organism could developing like it can move to dry ground.
Titan by numbers (Picture 2) |
The calm surface of those hydrocarbon oceans causes the effect that there would not create the layer between sea and dry ground, where the gases from the atmosphere can mix in the ocean liquids, what is made with hydrocarbons like methane. There could be bacteria inside the liquid hydrocarbon, what uses the volcanic temperature to create energy what this cell might need to create the sugars. But when we are thinking about the temperature and other conditions in that strange world, we must say that the only esoteric lifeforms are very primitive organisms what might be very similar to our cyanobacterial.
If they exist, they will live very slowly and all chemical reactions of this world could be extremely slow. Titan seems the very good place for manned spaceflight, but of course, the flight to there will take very long time. And how fantastic place this moon is depended is those hydrocarbons connected the oxygen. If there is oxygen in the atmosphere, there could breathe with using active carbon filters, what makes the equipment of astronauts easier to carry. But this flight to Titan will be possible in the distant future.
In this distant future might be stable colonies on our planet system and the trip to Saturn might be made from the colonies of the Asteroid belt and moons of Jupiter. And the astronauts, who will make that trip, might ever visit Earth. This scenario the solar system would populate by jumping planet to planet. And the trip to Saturn would not accomplish until stable colonies have been established to orbiter of Jupiter and its moons.
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