A trip to another world

Let's go on a journey, imagine that you are one of the first humans to reach the moon Titan, the largest of Saturn, the dense and low gravity is going to be very beneficial for the landing, since the ship can descend calmly, Thanks to some simple parachutes, the stress that happens when landing on Mars, for example, will not pass, where the low atmospheric density makes it necessary to use special parachutes and there is very little margin for the atmosphere to adequately stop the fall, that is why on Tuesday they usually choose landing zones in low areas in the old sea basins where you can gain two or three more kilometers of descent compared to the high regions.

You've already landed and you're walking on Titan or flying and the first thing you're going to notice is that you're surrounded by a lot of water, but frozen water, the ground, the rocks and even entire mountains are made up of water ice, that ice is so cold that is hard as a rock, you will also see dusty dunes but some organic matter compounds are completely unknown on earth, rare compounds that will have to be investigated and others are very familiar to us.

On Titan there is a lot of propylene which is a type of plastic that we can find in the containers of our kitchens or in the bumpers of cars, it is also possible that you notice how a fine mist of steam rises from the ground as you walk through Titan, that it will happen every time you take a step, because although your suit keeps the heat it may not be perfectly airtight and your boots are somewhat warmer than the environment so each step you take will literally melt your footprint into the ground, think that if there were inhabitants on Titan for them you would be a being of fire coming from a planet with infernal heat.

Imagine that you continue walking and that it is already noon, the light on Titan is going to be quite strange to you. Despite being noon, it will be a twilight light, very orange, the existing illumination on the surface of Titan is one thousandth of the existence at noon on on earth, but it would still be about 350 times brighter than a full moon night here on earth, in fact a nasa technician described it as like walking through a black asphalt parking lot at twilight.

On Titan you should not worry about the arrival of night, you will be in that darkness, in that dim light, but the night will take time to arrive, since a day before that lasts 15.9 Earth days, from The only thing you have to worry about is not depleting your oxygen reserve, since as I said before on Titan the atmosphere lacks oxygen, it is composed of 94% nitrogen, in fact it is the only nitrogen-rich atmosphere in the solar system apart of which our own planet exists and in case anyone asks, since there is no oxygen, there is no risk of hydrocarbons igniting, burning something means making it react with that something with oxygen.

On Titan you should not worry about the arrival of the night, you will be in that darkness, in that penumbra, but the night will take time to arrive, since a day before that lasts 15.9 Earth days, the only thing you have to worry about is not to deplete your oxygen reserve, on Titan the atmosphere lacks oxygen, it is composed of 94% nitrogen, in fact it is the only atmosphere rich in nitrogen in the solar system apart from the one that exists on our own planet and in case someone asks it, since there is no oxygen, there is no risk of hydrocarbons igniting, burning something means making it react with that something with oxygen.

You continue to advance through Titan, your goal is to explore the lakes that house a liquid mixture of methane and ethane, this liquid compound acts like water on earth with rain that forms rivers, erodes the landscape and fills the lakes and seas, but be careful because its characteristics are very different from those of water, that liquid is less viscous, so curiously a ship or a swimmer on Titan could move much faster than the seas on earth, if swimming in one of those lakes would look like a torpedo.

But the most amazing thing is that both methane and ethanol are organic compounds and scientists are not clear where all that methane came from on titan, if there is no replenishment because curiously, methane in the atmosphere does not last forever, so either either on Titan there is a strange chemical cycle that we still don't know about or there is an oasis of methane under the ground or maybe it is the product of some kind of life form unknown to us, that is going to be one of the things you should find out in this chapter just as the first titan explorers will have to find out.

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