Forget Mars! Let's go to Titan

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Mars is more or less a cold lifeless desert. Given this new discovery I say that we've sent enough probes to Mars already and it's time to send a probe just like Curiosity to explore the Surface of Titan. Only 1 probe has ever visited Titans surface since the Space Age began whereas there have been well over 10 Martian probes.

A manned mission to Mars is a waste of money compared to a manned mission to Titan. I honestly do wonder if the motive for all these Martian missions, particularly by NASA, is that Mars is more exciting to the general public than Titan.

Hold on to your hat soldier We must walk before we can run (or crawl before we can walk and then run). Not a lot of folks can see into the future and in a society like ours where speed is everything I doubt anyone would be patient enough to see through a project like you suggested. But I don't think it hasn't been already suggested by NASA already. The way I see it they must work with what they have first.

I, for one, would love to see the conclusion on Curiosity's mission. I suspect that when our star was young the planet Mars may have held suitable conditions for life (mind you, that at that time the planet Earth was pretty much a hostile place). Whatever happened to it from there to now is open to a wide range of theories. I guess we are just trying to corroborate the idea that Mars did have life.

It will be ironic when our star swells up into a massive beast and all their (those peeps from the article) ideas come true. Whenever the moon Titan evolves well enough to send its life-forms into space and they will be looking at our dead planet wondering if there was ever life on it. Makes me think of past-Mars (if it did happened) and its creatures lamenting their doom and gazing at Earth, fantasizing about its future promise of life.

I am not the general public, but a moon with an atmosphere is already exciting in my book. I also don't think NASA is planning on sending people to Mars anytime soon. There was such a fancy notion scheduled to happen sometime in 2020, but alas, money problems got in the way. However, there is a group that is thinking about doing it ( Click Me ) I do hope they succeed because I'm totally signing up for it

i think you are right in saying that we need more probes in general, especially towards POI's.

that said mars will be a nice location for a manned mission, we need something to kickstart the space revolution.

I was always interested in Titan. I always hear Europa as being the moon with life on it. It's cool to think that there could be not one, not two, but three life-supporting worlds in one solar system.

I also hear speculation about Triton, one of Neptune's moons, which has lots of carbon and is heated by it's weird orbit. That one seems pretty unlikely though.

Titan is a cold, lifeless world.

At least, the only solid evidence for life anywhere in the entire universe is found only on Earth.

So let's spend the money to make life worthwhile here before we use it to go blasting off to some cryogenic hell-hole.

Actually, Fnord, there's something going on on the surface of Titan that's either a weird chemical reaction, or evidence of the life cycle of a microbe capable of processing ammonia into hydrocarbons. Either way, it's interesting, and potentially profitable...

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What's wrong with going to our moon first? It's more feasible to establish ourselves there than anywhere else, and like Ruveyn said, there are resources we can use over there. Plus if we ever figure out a way to extract the raw elements in the lunar regolith, we could use the additive manufacturing process (3d printing) to build future rovers which won't cost hundreds of millions of dollars to launch.