Great article, but there are a few *major* errors with your analysis.

1) There is NO evidence that Titan has any water on its surface. Its temperatures are far too cold for liquid water to be present. The article you referenced in the link should have easily pointed that out.

Methane (and ethane) are the only chemicals that can remain liquid at those freezing temperatures.

2) There is no evidence that Titan has a magnetosphere (if so, a link for that would be nice). Mars does however have one, although it is very weak (recent findings have revealed pockets of this field emerging from the Martian surface).

See this link for details:

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1749.html

3) It would be easier to turn Mars into another Earth than Titan because Titan’s atmosphere block out a large portion of the sun light making it nearly impossible to grow plants. Couple that with Saturn’s distance from the Sun, and Titan looks like a very dead world. Mars we could at least build greenhouses upon to grow our food.

4) Cosmic radiation can come from more than our Sun (try black holes, other stars, neutron stars, etc.) hence the reason why you need a magnetic field. Titan’s atmosphere would only protect us so much.

Either way, it was an interesting article. However, Titan could easily be a home because of Saturn’s other moons have plenty of ice water for us to mine (Titan could easily exchange that for methane fuel).

Although I am not exactly a fan of Mars (as it still lacks any known major resources) it would be easier making that into a second Earth than any world beyond Jupiter in our solar system.

Hi Darnell, thanks for the suggestions.

Titan does not have a magnetosphere of its own, but some is induced from Saturn, around which it is orbiting. And talking about water there is plenty of evidence that Titan may have crystalline forms of water below its surface. And can be delivered to the surface after a volcanic activity. This is a much better evidence than any evidence of water on Mars.

Titan has long been a place of interest and it is the only thing in the solar system next to Mars of course, that has repeatedly raised the prospect that some habitable locales may indeed exist on Titan.

You are right Darnell>> There is NO evidence that Titan has any water on its surface.

There are lakes of liquid methane on Titan�s surface that were revealed by Cassini on July 22 last year.

Titan is a complex world in which the interaction between the inner and outer layers is controlled by processes similar to those that must have dominated the evolution of any Earth-like planet.

So, that, I guess is the origin of speculative ideas that once again force researchers to question the definition and universal needs of life, and to consider the possibility that life might evolve in very different environments.

Talk about *major* errors,.... the article keeps says ”places that can be made inhabitable”!!!! I believe the word is ”habitable”.

Hi classicalcholera, Before commenting, i think you should check out a dictionary for reference. Please check this for your queries.

This is a really cool article, you wrote it?
I work as the editor of a magazine called CRAM (www.CRAM-mag.com) and would really like to use this in an upcoming issue if possible. Check us out and let me know what you think (email: editor@cram-mag.com). Thanks!
-Tim