| Living on Titan | | | | of this moon. Everything we need could be made from |
| Could Humans live on Saturn's largest Moon, Titan? Of | | | | readily available sources on Titan. |
| course we could not survive without protection, but this | | | | Gravity |
| applies to some places on the Earth where people live. | | | | The Gravity of Titan is less than that of the Earth so |
| Breathing | | | | people born there might have trouble adapting to the |
| A single breath of Titan's atmosphere would kill you. | | | | Earth's gravity although they would be able to visit the |
| There is no Oxygen, but there are some undesirable | | | | Human colonies on Mars, Mercury and the other |
| gases from the Human point of view including | | | | settled moons of the Solar System. |
| Ammonia and Hydrogen Cyanide. However, these | | | | Air Pressure |
| would not kill you. The cold would. With a temperature | | | | The atmospheric pressure of Titan is higher than that |
| averaging below the lowest temperature ever | | | | of the Earth, so probably we would set the air |
| recorded on the Earth, Titan is too cold for us. It is | | | | pressure of our habitat at about one and a half times |
| actually worse than outer space because the | | | | that of the Earth. There might be a little adjustment in |
| atmosphere would conduct heat away from our | | | | the proportions of the different gasses needed, but the |
| bodies, so we could not even survive in a normal | | | | higher air pressure would help to guard against the |
| space suit. A Titan survival suit could be designed, but | | | | poisonous air of Titan getting in. |
| we should be looking at artificial habitats. | | | | Flying |
| Artificial Habitats | | | | With gravity only about a tenth of that of the Earth |
| An artificial Human habitat on Titan might be | | | | and a higher air pressure, a person could strap on |
| constructed underground. There seems to be some | | | | wings and fly just using the strength of their arms. Of |
| rock as we know it, but quite possibly we would use | | | | course to do this you would have to have a large |
| ice and line a cavern under the ice with some sort of | | | | open space in your habitat. |
| plastic material made from the abundant hydrocarbons | | | | |