The largest satellite in the solar system is Ganymede, which revolves around Jupiter. Titanium is the second largest, it belongs to Saturn, and attracts great interest from scientists. This celestial body has a number of features that make it an interesting object not only for research, but also for colonization - of course, so far hypothetically. It has an atmosphere, and rather dense - in this regard, it has serious advantages over the Moon, which is a satellite of the Earth and absolutely has no atmosphere, representing just a block of stone.

Titanium is huge, in size it is comparable to Mars, and its atmosphere consists mainly of nitrogen - up to 90 percent, compared with 77 percent on Earth. Many more interesting things can be said about this satellite.

What is interesting for titan mankind?

It is impossible to see the surface of a satellite through a dense atmosphere. But there is no oxygen in his atmosphere, and therefore life in the form usual for humanity cannot be here either. The celestial body is of interest for another reason - methane is abundant on it. At a low temperature of -180 degrees Celsius, which reigns here, methane takes on a liquid form and flows in the form of rivers, lakes and seas. And there is gasoline, which is created by chemical reactions in the atmosphere. The surface, atmosphere and bowels of the celestial body are filled with hydrocarbons so necessary for mankind, causing great interest. The lack of oxygen eliminates the risk of ignition of this wealth.

The presence of a large volume of such products suggests the existence of life, even if in a bacterial form, but there is currently no evidence of this. Familiar to humanity on Earth cannot exist here, but as for bacteria - some of them are perfectly dispensed with oxygen and can adapt to existence at low temperatures. Moreover, closer to the bowels of the planet they can be high, heating the seas from organic matter - tectonic activity on this satellite of Saturn is registered, it is present in full. At a certain period of its development, the Earth also existed without oxygen, which was later produced by blue-green algae, but this did not prevent life from arising.

Titanium Research

In 2005, the first research vehicle was sent to Titan, which successfully landed on its surface and recorded the presence of winds in the atmosphere. He sent to Earth many photographs. In the study of the surface, even volcanoes were discovered that are erupted by cold hydrocarbon products. At the moment, research is ongoing, but it should be understood that modern technological progress does not allow starting the supply of minerals from this satellite to Earth. However, in the future such an opportunity may well appear.

Titan Discovery History

Saturn’s satellite Titan was discovered in 1655 by the astronomer Huygens, who was able to distinguish this large celestial body from the observation of Saturn, and even established that it makes a revolution around the planet in 16 Earth days. He called the discovered simply: “Saturn’s satellite”. The modern name was given by Herschel in 1847.And in 1907 it was proved that the satellite of the giant planet has its own atmosphere. It was noted that at some point the middle of the object becomes brighter than the edges. The presence of methane in the atmosphere was proved in 1944 by Kuiper, who used a spectrograph for this.

Thus, Titanium is an interesting celestial object, which may turn out to be very interesting in the future for mankind, especially if it is not possible to bypass the fuel crisis and overcome the need for hydrocarbons. The large size of the object made it possible to discover it back in the Middle Ages, however, this satellite is actively explored today.