Timeline for Titan vs Mars for colonization
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| Jan 4, 2022 at 21:36 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | @GENIVI-LEARNER: Oxygen is available virtually anywhere, even metallic asteroids will have some rocky material which is approximately half oxygen, and you're likely to be producing more than you need as part of making rocket propellant. It's the other components of CHONPS which are likely to become limiting factors for colonization. If your colony lacks them, its growth will be limited by what it can import. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 11:53 | comment | added | GENIVI-LEARNER | @SteveLinton why is abundant nitrogen any good? We cant convert it to anything other then nitrates for crops, but that is secondary issue, the primary issue is breathable oxygen | |
| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | Everyday Astronaut | Just pointing out this one pro-argument of Titan. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 23:57 | comment | added | Steve Linton | @EverydayAstronaut Making methane and oxygen on Mars is not much harder than making oxygen on Titan. For both you start by mining, melting and then electrolyzing water ice, to get hydrogen and oxygen. On Mars you need a second step which is to reach the hydrogen with $CO_2$ to make methane and water (which you can recycle). EIther way you essentially just need lots of power and some fairly well understood chemical plant. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 21:03 | vote | accept | Muze | ||
| Mar 2, 2019 at 20:15 | comment | added | Everyday Astronaut | One more suggestion for pro-Titan: methane (and even hydrogen) can be used to re-fuel rockets. “only“ need to figure out how to get the oxidizer | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 20:05 | comment | added | Everyday Astronaut | It's also raining methane. So definitely something one should consider. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 12:24 | comment | added | Steve Linton | @EveryDayAstronaut Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, with just a little methane. It's also very cold. I doubt even pure oxygen would burn. The methane is present mostly as a liquid on the surface. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | Eth | @EverydayAstronaut and vice-versa | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | Everyday Astronaut | Need to add that a leak of oxygen (e.g. from spacesuits, reservoirs, engines, ...) might lead to explosive mixtures on Titan. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 10:15 | history | edited | Everyday Astronaut | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 9:59 | history | edited | Steve Linton | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 9:17 | history | answered | Steve Linton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |