Manned Landing On Titan, Issues & Answers? |
Manned Landing On Titan, Issues & Answers? |
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
Just got to thinking about some of the problems that may have to be addressed if & when we ever try to visit Titan in person.
The first thing that comes to mind is what might happen if some Titanian air gets inside an oxygen-rich manned spacecraft, say from minor airlock residue. I imagine that the explosive potential of some of the trace gasses is pretty high, and there's probably also a significant risk of poisonous compounds as well. So, here are some tenative requirements: 1. REALLY efficient air-scavenging airlocks. 2. Surface suits that can't trap external gasses in creases, folds, etc. 3. Spark-proof electrical/electronic everything. 4. Smoking is strictly forbidden (with apologies to the entire 1950s SF movie genre!) ![]() Gotta be more...any ideas? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Founder ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 ![]() |
What would be the physiological effects of living at 1.6+ Bar?
I was thinking that you could get away with basically a 'warm suit' with breathing gear ( i.e. the Baxter suggestion in 'Voyage' ) HOWEVER..... The only way to not contaminate from outside to inside the module via the airlock would be to evacuate it to as near a vacuum as you can at each cycle.. i.e. people put on suits, get in. 'habitable' air then pumped out into a pressure vessel so the airlock is at as near a vacuum as can be made. THEN - you repressurise with 'titanian' air up to titanian pressue. On the way back in - shut the door, pump out to a vacuum dumping it to the atmosphere outside, then represurise with the air evacuated before the EVA began...that would minimise the cross contamination in the meantime BUT It then means you have to have an EVA suit that can manage a near vacuum so it's going to look more like a modern EVA suit rather than something more minimal that one might immediately assume would be enough for Titan. maybe ![]() Doug |
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