Kate Rauner answers “can we breathe air on titan?”

Timothy Morrison asked this question about Titan: Colonizing Saturn's Moon (Saturn's Moon Trilogy):

can we breathe air on titan?

Kate Rauner Afraid not. Titan's air lacks oxygen and is cold enough to freeze your lungs solid. But the nitrogen would be a building-block for air inside a habita…moreAfraid not. Titan's air lacks oxygen and is cold enough to freeze your lungs solid. But the nitrogen would be a building-block for air inside a habitat that other planets and moons lack. Achieving an Earth-perfect (for us humans) mix of nitrogen and oxygen will be a challenge on, say, Mars. Hopefully, NASA's Dragonfly mission to Titan will launch on-schedule and we'll learn more in about ten years. Keep an eye out :)(less)

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