Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Potentially Habitable Moons

NASA ^ | September 19, 2014 | (see photo credit)

[jmacusa]

Titan is the one to get in on! Jet skiing on lakes of methane, YAHOO!!!

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Dallas59]

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[mikrofon]

Thank you for the extensive reference…

[SunkenCiv]

Even with an athmosphere they’d all be far too cold. There’s probably plenty of water ice in the outer asteroids, sufficient to cover Titan to a few feet at least, leaving some terrain exposed, then work on the atmosphere; or introducing oxygen from the same source to turn that methane into CO2 and water (and some other stuff), then using extremophiles to slowly turn most of the CO2 into oxygen. :’) The place would probably need to have a huge mirror in orbit on the “dark” side or at a libration point (or more than one) to collect and direct more solar radiation, iow, no night, but no really full daylight either.

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, I’m definitely getting tha- 850 mb? Well, okay. Thanks, I’ll post that link in the next X-Planets topic.

[SunkenCiv]

I probably could have shortened the link on the page though.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, I like that Berringer Crater one!

[jmacusa]

Certainly they're all too cold— and distant. Our own moon is much closer. And of course there's Mars, which has a thin atmosphere. I think we should try and terraform The Red Planet. But of course with Obozo killing off the space program.... God how I hate that little narcissistic prick.

[mikrofon]

n/p ... reading the Explanation, the thought came to mind to find what objects had been named for Tantalus (and the similar Tartarus).

[SunkenCiv]

Building orbital habitats a la the late Gerard K. O’Neill’s suggestions might make the most sense, but of course, we really don’t need the space down here, contrary to what is often regurgitated by Malthusians.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s nice that people have accepted and are working out the details of the idea that various annual meteor showers resulted from cometary debris.