NASA WILL SEND A SPECIAL SUBMARINE TO TITAN MOON OF SATURN PLANET FOR DISCOVERING THE DEPTH OF KRAKEN MARE
Monday, August 29, 2016
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| NASA Submarine on the surface of Kraken Mare |
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| NASA special Submarine in the sea of Titan |
The Indo-Asian News Service on August 29, 2016 announces that NASA plans to send Space Submarine to Saturn's Moon Titan to discover the largest ocean as Kraken Mare of the Titan Moon.
Saturn's moon Titan is unique in the outer solar system in
that it is the only one of the bodies outside the Earth with liquid lakes and
seas on its surface and the US space agency has unveiled plans to send a
submarine into the depths of its largest ocean - Kraken Mare.
Nasa is working on sending a submarine into the depths of
the Kraken Mare, Inverse.com reported on Saturday.
The Titanian seas, however, are not composed of water, like
Earth's seas, but are seas of liquid hydrocarbons and one of the reasons why
Nasa wants to go to Titan is "to determine if hydrocarbon based life is
possible on Titan," Nasa cryogenics engineer Jason Hartwig said in a
presentation at the Nasa Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium held this week
in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Secondly, with clouds and an atmosphere, Titan is very
similar to Earth ? apart from the extreme cold and oceans of liquid methane.
But hidden in the methane sea may be clues to how life
evolved and potentially some weird extraterrestrial microbes, the report said.
The proposed submarine would carry instruments to measure
the chemical composition of the ocean, the currents and tides, and the
structure of the ocean floor.
Nasa has a proposed launch date of 2038 because of how the
Earth and Saturn are aligned with Titan's seasons.
Sprawling over some 1,000 km, with depths estimated at 300
m, Kraken Mare represents an opportunity for an unprecedented planetary
exploration mission, Nasa earlier said in a statement.
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