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I am curious why we don't focus more efforts on Titan, which already has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

• notaplumber 10y ago
  It's very far away from the Sun.
  • chris_va 10y ago
    Plus Jupiter has a pretty intense magnetosphere that Titan transits. Jovian space has a lot of self generated radiation that makes it less than hospitable. Edit: Titan is a moon of Saturn. Oops.
    • ythn 10y ago
      Pretty sure everywhere but earth is going to be extremely inhospitable
  • manojlds 10y ago
    And us?
    • notaplumber 10y ago
      Still very far away from the Sun, but closer.
    • cjensen 10y ago
      Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Thanks to the inverse square law, it gets 3.7% of the sunlight that Earth does. You won't be growing any plants there, and solar electric is going to be terrible. Saturn, which Titan orbits, is 9.6 times farther, and receives 1% of the sunlight that Earth receives. Mars is much better at 1.5 times farther, and receiving 44% of the sunlight that Earth does. Also, Titan averages -179C compared to Mars' range from -125C up to 20C.
      • sitkack 10y ago
        Go other way to Mercury and one has virtually limitless energy. The polar craters contain ice and a thermal reservoir.