What if we would land to Titan?
1) Titan is more different than Earth than we ever thought
When we are thinking about that strange world with hydrocarbon oceans and high-pressure atmosphere, we might think that this moon would be a suitable place for the base. But the thing is that the reality would be far away from this kind of vision. Titan is very different than Mars or earth, and that small planet or moon is dry. When we are talking about the methane oceans and atmosphere, we should rather say "hydrocarbon atmosphere and oceans" than use the word "methane".
The chemical formula of methane is CH4, but the other alkane hydrocarbons like propane C3H8 is giving similar image to the spectrometer with methane, and that means that the atmosphere of Titan can be forming by the every other alkane hydrocarbons(1), what are forming from the components hydrogen and carbon.
The hydrocarbons, what might have far longer molecules than methane that is forming the main element of the atmosphere of that moon and what is also in the liquid form would cause that there are giant dust storms on that moon and because of the gravity of Titan(2) is 0,138g and the pressure on the surface is 1,45 atmosphere. That means that the wind would start to fly sand similarly with Mars(3) what surface gravity is 0,3794g, which means that the gravity of Mars is a little bit stronger, but the pressure on that planet is only 0.00628 atmosphere. That means that the sand would fly on titan wit higher speed, than Mars, and the dust storms of Titan (4)would be more dangerous than similar things on Mars, and the effect, what flying sand would get is like an abrasive blast, when it hits to some structures.
2) Dust storms of Titan can destroy the spacecraft
So when the sand flies on the dry planet, what has low gravity and high pressure, that thing causes turbulence in the flying sand cloud and that effect would cause the static electricity in the sand cloud. When we are thinking about tornadoes on the Earth, that effect causes wonderful and destructive flashes of lightning, but what would you think to happen on the planet, where this similar effect is in the atmosphere, where is higher pressure and lower gravity?
The absolute dry sand would make more fascinating flashes of lightning, than on the Erath has ever seen. That kind of lightning would cause problems with the electric equipment of the hypothetical station or space probe. And the high-speed sand would make the problems also to the cores of the probes.
So the thing that makes the titan problematic is that the high-pressure atmosphere, what is combined with the low gravity causes this kind of special effect. The thing that makes this kind of hydrocarbon atmosphere interesting is, how Titan can maintain this thing? Why the gravity of Saturn and it's moons doesn't pull the gas away from Titan? Maybe the answer is that Methane or some other hydrocarbon molecules are so heavy, that they cause the effect, where the hydrocarbon can make a stable atmosphere.
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