Titan's Resources and Their Utilization

bookofjoe 19 points 5 comments July 06, 2026
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r721

Illustrative video: >On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system. This video uses actual images taken by the probe during its two-and-a-half hour fall under its parachutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiLWxDayuA

pigpop

I wonder if you could design a plastics production plant, injection molding system, propellant plant and an extremely large potato canon in order to launch large canisters of hydrocarbons and oxygen on a slow return trip.

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