geonomy: (☆ did you see that shooting star tonight)
clay тerran | ѕpace nerd ([personal profile] geonomy) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet 2015-07-07 06:21 pm (UTC)

As far as we know, no. Nothing on Saturn or its moons are sustainable for human life. It's a gas giant, so it'd be pretty hard to even set foot there to investigate further! Its core is about the only solid thing in it: a rocky surface that's about 2.5 miles long. But the rest of it is all made up of hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia, hydrogen deuteride, and ethane, as well as a large layer of ice made up of water and different types of ammonias. All those gases make it even less dense than water!

[Oop, there he went again, and he knows he's got that bright look in his eyes when he talks about anything astronomical. Let's reel that in again.]

Uh, so, in other words, you're right. Nothing lives there.

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