If you could visit any Moon in the solar system, which one would it be? why? and what would you do/look for?

Question

meaning you if you could go to one moon and one moon only and you would be completely invincable so that no harm could or would come to you.

zahbudar, you didnt read the caption below the question now did you?

Answer 1

Io or Titan...but I think Titan. It's more mysterious right now. I'd be looking for those hydrocarbon lakes, "rocks" made of water ice, and maybe volcanoes that spew water and rivers of slush. I'd also be looking for that enigmatic Titan hydrocarbon mud...which might just exhibit some of the weirdest properties in our solar system.

I think Titan is ultimately going to be the weirdest moon in our solar system. Sure, Europa, Io, and Enceledus are exciting too, but they just don't seem as strange as Titan. (And underground oceans of water may not be so uncommon...as at least four moons are now theorized to have them, with more being investigated, such as Neptune's Triton--along with Pluto and other KBOs.)

Edit: An FYI to Clay below me. Saturn may not be the spectacular sight he envisions from Titan. Its orbit is almost perfectly equatorial...meaning the rings are edge on and not visible. However, you would see the shadow of the rings on Saturn...and that might be kinda cool.

Edit: And to zahbudar, If moons can't hold onto atmosphere, then how come Titan has such a dense one? (Twice as dense as Earth's.) Sure, Titan is big as far as moons go, but it is far smaller than Mars...and stupid people claim Mars' atmosphere is thin because of the low gravity, which is total bunk. Mars could easily hold onto a much thicker atmosphere, it simply does not have one. We don't know why.

Answer 2

Io or Titan...but I think Titan. It's more mysterious right now. I'd be looking for those hydrocarbon lakes, "rocks" made of water ice, and maybe volcanoes that spew water and rivers of slush. I'd also be looking for that enigmatic Titan hydrocarbon mud...which might just exhibit some of the weirdest properties in our solar system.

I think Titan is ultimately going to be the weirdest moon in our solar system. Sure, Europa, Io, and Enceledus are exciting too, but they just don't seem as strange as Titan. (And underground oceans of water may not be so uncommon...as at least four moons are now theorized to have them, with more being investigated, such as Neptune's Triton--along with Pluto and other KB Os.)

Edit: An FYI to Clay below me. Saturn may not be the spectacular sight he envisions from Titan. Its orbit is almost perfectly equatorial...meaning the rings are edge on and not visible. However, you would see the shadow of the rings on Saturn...and that might be kinda cool.

Edit: And to zahbudar, If moons can't hold onto atmosphere, then how come Titan has such a dense one? (Twice as dense as Earth's.) Sure, Titan is big as far as moons go, but it is far smaller than Mars...and stupid people claim Mars' atmosphere is thin because of the low gravity, which is total bunk. Mars could easily hold onto a much thicker atmosphere, it simply does not have one. We don't know why.

Answer 3

Zahbudar is wrong. Scientists HAVE found the possibility of water on the Earth's moon, at the polar ends in craters. If this is true, and they're planning on sending probes within 10 years, I think, to prove it or not, it will revolutionize colonizing the Moon. Go read some more science news, Zah!

As far as what moon? Whatever other moon you guys aren't on! Titan and Europa are probably the best to explore first, but there are others that have interesting atmospheres, too. I can't think of any of their names, right off the top of my head, though. :)

Answer 4

I would go to THE MOON ,our Moon, so I could look up and see the Earth from there. I'm sure it's a tremendous sight as only twelve men have seen it. Once there I would drive around Tranquility Base careful not to disturb Neil and Buzz's bootprints. Then I'd travel to the Frau Mauro Highlands and try to find Alan Shepard's golf ball and see if it really did go "miles and miles".

Answer 5

Titan, moon of Saturn. I'd go because of its atmosphere and geography. There are land masses of rock and ice, and seas of methane. I'd take a lot of pictures and look for anything unusual, especially life. I would find the Huygens probe that landed on the surface several years ago. I'd fly around in the atmosphere and get great views of Saturn in the sky above. I would spend a few weeks there.

Answer 6

Answer = None of them.

1.) Moons are smaller than planets and therefore less likely to have the total amount of gravity necessary to hold onto an gas atmosphere for protection from harmful rays of the Sun.

2.) Only one moon exists at about the right distance from the Sun to provide reasonable heating within the range needed for carbon based life forms, and that one does not have any atmosphere or water. Also, it does not spin on its axis to provide reasonably equal heating of its surface.

Answer 7

I would go to Jupiter's moon Europa because it supposedly houses the only other water ocean in the solar system and therefore could harbor life. I would go down in history.

Answer 8

Tough call.

Either Europa, one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, to go scuba diving under the ice and see what sort of creatures exist under there, if any (assuming the hypothesis of water existing under the ice is true).

Or Titan, of Saturn, to see what a Methane volcano looks like. And perhaps catch up with Ethan Hawke while there (Gattaca).

Answer 9

Saturn's moon, Titan, it must be quite a sight looking at the rings of that planet from close up.

Answer 10

I would go to Europa, and try to see for myself if i could find any evidence of water, or life... And titan, to see what is beneath that beautiful cloud layer... and just see what is there... just for fun... I also want to be the first woman on our Moon...