जीवनको सम्भावना शनीको चन्द्रमा टाइटन || Potential for Life - Titan || Bishwo Ghatana

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Potential for Life

The Cassini spacecraft’s numerous gravity measurements of Titan revealed that the moon is hiding an underground ocean of liquid water (likely mixed with salts and ammonia). The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe also measured radio signals during its descent to the surface, in 2005, that strongly suggested the presence of an ocean 35 to 50 miles (55 to 80 kilometers) below the icy ground. The discovery of a global ocean of liquid water adds Titan to the handful of worlds in our solar system that could potentially contain habitable environments. Additionally, Titan’s rivers, lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane might serve as a habitable environment on the moon’s surface, though any life there would likely be very different from Earth’s life. Thus, Titan could potentially harbor environments with conditions suitable for life—meaning both life as we know it (in the subsurface ocean) and life as we don’t know it (in the hydrocarbon liquid on the surface). Although there is so far no evidence of life on Titan, its complex chemistry and unique environments are certain to make it a destination for continued exploration.

Quick Facts

Discovered
March 25, 1655

Type
Icy Moon

Diameter
3,200 miles (5,149.4 kilometers)

Orbital Period
Nearly 16 Earth days

Length of Day
Nearly 16 Earth days

Mass
1.8 times Earth’s moon

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