Titan an amazing world.

Titan practically opened up to us with the Cassini-Huygens mission, some ships had already passed through there, but that mission that arrived at Saturn in 2004 and was operational until 2017 fulfilled its objective of studying the Ringed Planet and its moons, especially the great Titan Moon.

It was a collaborative space investigation by NASA and the European space agency and the Italian space agency, with the aim of studying the planet Saturn, but also the mission was very special because there was not only the Cassini orbiter but also the Huygens Probe. which was from the European space agency and which managed to land on the icy moon Titan in 2005.

It managed to function for a few hours, unfortunately that was all its operational capacity and it has sent the only direct images we have of the surface of Titan, since all the other images we have, including the ones we are going to see of the Magic Islands, are images of radar taken by the Cassini orbiter that was orbiting Saturn and passing over Titan.

Because the thick orange atmosphere does not allow us to see the surface from space, Titan has a very dense atmosphere and that prevents us from seeing its surface.

On Titan there is a huge amount of hydrocarbons, in fact, the lakes and rivers are made of hydrocarbons, the problem is that you have to go look for those hydrocarbons, it will be quite expensive, although in the future they will surely be able to be used.

Another characteristic is that in Titan there are many components, many carbon molecules, there are many carbon elements, they have discovered that there is even plastic, there are dunes made of plastic that we have in our bodies, they are in balls that form a kind of plastic sand and those are sand accumulates in dunes is something amazing.

We cannot see the surface directly, we only have the image of the Probe and the place where it landed, the dense atmosphere covers it from us, but thanks to the exploration of Cassini, which has made more than 100 flybys over Titan, we have been able to reveal, thanks to radar images, mountains, dune fields, some very strange ones as I mentioned, rivers, 650 lakes and small seas.

Above all, they are found in the polar regions of Titan, 300 of those 650 lakes are at least partially full, because it turns out that there are many that are dry, it is another of the great mysteries of Titan, all these landscapes could be similar to those of the earth but be careful not to be fooled, because the titan landscapes are made up of totally different materials.

Practically most of the mountains are made of water ice, the water is very abundant but it is frozen and then the dunes and lakes are made of hydrocarbons and organic matter, Titan is also considered a giant moon and rightly so because it has 5149 km in diameter, its diameter is 270 km greater than that of the Planet Mercury, it is larger than Mercury, in fact if it orbited the sun it would surely be considered a planet and even so it is the second largest Moon in the solar system because it exceeds it by only 120 km Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

Titan is the only known place outside the Earth that has a surface where liquids flow, where it rains and rivers, lakes and even small seas are formed. It would also be the only surface outside the Earth on which we could walk without needing a suit. pressurized space, something that we do need, for example on Mars, the atmospheric pressure is one and a half times that of Earth, which is quite acceptable, especially taking into account the low gravity of Titan.

There is another place where we could be without a pressure suit, I mean the clouds of Venus, there we could be without thermal protection and without a pressure suit, although we would have to be on board a ship or on the surface of that ship and at about 50 km high because going lower on Venus would be suicidal, in both cases both Venus and Titan would have to carry a supply of oxygen to breathe because in those places there is no oxygen, it is another amazing world.

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