/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7482367]

There are over 170 known natural moons orbiting planets in our Solar System. Which moons do you think would be most beneficial to visit? (either manned or with robotic probes) Whats your favorite moon? Moons thread.

[Anonymous No.7482371]

We sure got a big moon for the size of our planet

[Anonymous No.7482372]

There are probably dudes living in Europa

[Anonymous No.7482398]

>>7482367
>>7482367
if we flung europa and ceres onto the surface of venus, would it be enough water to lower the surface temperature some, absorb a crapload of CO2 and regulate the runaway greenhouse effect, allowing anaerobic life to exist?

[Anonymous No.7482402]

>>7482367
The ones that we think have liquid water under their icy surfaces.

[Anonymous No.7482416]

>>7482402
Which is like all of them

[Anonymous No.7482438]

>>7482371
Earth and the moon are pretty much a double planet

[Anonymous No.7482464]

>>7482438
no

[Anonymous No.7482467]

>>7482464
>Though not an official classification, the European Space Agency has referred to the Earth–Moon system as a double planet. The IAU General Assembly in August 2006 considered a proposal that Pluto and Charon be reclassified as a double planet.

[Anonymous No.7482470]

>>7482367
Titan, Krypton, Io, Europa, Enceladus.

[Anonymous No.7482477]

>>7482470
Fuck, I meant Triton instead of Krypton. Sleep deprivation does wonders...

[Anonymous No.7482495]

>>7482398
That would actually massively raise the surface temperature. Even ignoring the massive energy of the impacts, water is an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas.

[Anonymous No.7482507]

>>7482470
>tfw diving a submersible into Titan's hydrocarbon lakes

[Anonymous No.7482530]

I hope one day we'll go to the moon

[Anonymous No.7482542]

>>7482367
Charon is not a moon.

Pluto and Charon orbit a common point. Making them a binary planet system.

[Anonymous No.7482547]

>>7482371
4 U

[Anonymous No.7482584]

>>7482495
But if we can get the water on the surface in oceans? I mean do it quickly or just quicken the process.

[Anonymous No.7482608]

>>7482398
Use the impacts to make the planet spin. So that it can generate its own magnetosphere. Otherwise solar radiation is just going to destroy all the water and strip the hydrogen away.

[Anonymous No.7482654]

>>7482467

[Anonymous No.7482665]

>>7482542

Who says they're planets?

[Anonymous No.7482699]

>>7482507
>tfw corporations use Titan as a source of hydrocarbons

[Anonymous No.7482701]

>>7482542
>Charon is not a moon.

Simply having the barycenter slightly outside of the larger body does not make it a double planet.

If it did, the Sun and Jupiter would also be a binary system.

[Anonymous No.7482702]

>>7482665
A dwarf planet is still a planet, Charon is a satellite of Pluto though.

[Anonymous No.7482776]

>>7482702
There was a dumb argument about this in another thread once. It's all semantics.
The moon is really a planet on it's own. it's nearly the size of mercury. But if you call the moon a planet, you can't also call Jupiter a planet, or Venus a planet. There has to be sub-classifications. Thats why it was funny when all those people got butthurt about Pluto being demoted to a "non" planet, a dwarf planet. It's the same thing.

[Anonymous No.7482926]

>>7482776
>It's all semantics
semantics distinguish you from the other apes, therefore not trivial

[Anonymous No.7483608]

>>7482701
Jupiter isn't a star, not even big and hot enough to be a failed brown dwarf. It also orbits our sun.

[Anonymous No.7483639]

What is earth's mooon called?
Every planet has a cool name for their respective moon, whats ours?

[Anonymous No.7483647]

>>7483608
Our sun also orbits Jupiter, as the barycenter is inside neither body.

This does not make them a binary, and by the same measure Pluto and Charon are not a binary.

[Anonymous No.7483651]

>>7483639
Luna

[Anonymous No.7483652]

>>7482367
Nothing in our solar system will contain any knowledge valuable to us

[Anonymous No.7483653]

>>7483639

Luna.

[Anonymous No.7483656]

>>7483652

>Implying knowing these planetary objects' conditions won't help us terraform the fuck out of them.

[Anonymous No.7483661]

>>7483639
Moon

[Anonymous No.7483671]

>>7483639
moon=luna. Earth=Terra Sun=Sol

[Anonymous No.7484386]

>>7483652
Super retarded statement

[Anonymous No.7484405]

>>7483639
u retarded?

our moon is called Moon (in English), because for most of history people didn't realise there could be other moons

sometimes its called Luna or Selene to make it seem "more proper" noun, but really that's extraneous

[Anonymous No.7484408]

>>7482367

I'd love to probe puck in uranus.

[Anonymous No.7484413]

>>7484408
except your moms gaping vag

[Anonymous No.7484421]

>>7483671
>>7484405
If we ever colonize other planets or stars it will be sensible to have a common, most likely latin, name for the Moon and Sun. Luna and Sol are fine candidates.

[Anonymous No.7484423]

>>7484421
>not superior greek name Selene
Pleb

[Anonymous No.7484425]

>>7484421
...why? seems unlikely unless all the world's languages merge into one by then

[Anonymous No.7484440]

new closeup of dione
saturn's ring visible in the back

[Anonymous No.7484473]

>>7484440
That moon looks like a faggot.

[Anonymous No.7484514]

>>7484423
That's stupid. Selene is too common a name. Plus, "Luna" and "Lunar"

You are trying too hard to be a special snowflake.


>>7484425
You do understand why we use Latin in other branches of science, yes?

[Anonymous No.7484519]

>>7484473
no its qt moon

[Anonymous No.7484965]

>>7482367
In order of importance
>The Moon
>Europa
>Titan
>Enceladus
>Triton
>Ganymede

[Anonymous No.7485046]

>>7484965
What doyou have against Callisto? It seems a bit nicer than the other three Galileans due to the greater distance.
Phobos and Deimos might also be interesting since they are easy to reach.

[Anonymous No.7485077]

>>7484965
>ignoring this abomination

[Anonymous No.7485159]

>>7485077
Still looks better than your face.

[Anonymous No.7485160]

Is ever colonizing some of Jupiter's moons out of the question?

From what I understand, anything inside Jupiter's magnetosphere is basically a radiation hellhole

[Anonymous No.7485170]

>>7482467
I hope they are stupid enough to classify the Moon as a planet then people will stop taking their claim that Pluto isn't a planet seriously.

[Anonymous No.7485171]

>>7485160
I heard Ganymede isn't too bad.
What I want is more rovers on their surfaces. We need more surface pictures man. Only place we have multiple good "human views" of is Mars.

[Anonymous No.7485172]

>>7485160
Io rivals Venus for the title of hell.
We'll see in 15-20 years how JUICE turns out.

[Anonymous No.7485176]

>>7485159
I know, no need to tell me

[Anonymous No.7485185]

>>7485077
It's criminal that the moon wasn't called Janus.
The one currently called Janus should be Prometheus due to sharing an orbit with Epimetheus.

[Anonymous No.7485197]

>>7485172
>JUICE
what?

[Anonymous No.7485203]

>>7485197
ESA's next big interplanetary mission, JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. They plan on orbiting Ganymede itself with NASA's Europa Clipper will be limited to flybys from Jovian orbit.

[Anonymous No.7485209]

>>7484514
>You do understand why we use Latin in other branches of science, yes?
what has that got to do with anything?
people still call dogs "Dog" "Hund" "Perro" "Chien" whatever despite it being common knowledge that the scientific / latin name is "Canis". I really doubt you could just force everyone to abandon their own word and start calling it "Terra" or "Luna"

[Anonymous No.7485211]

>>7485171

I wouldn't expect rovers to the moons of the gas giants any time soon. The fairly deep gravity wells and lack of atmosphere make it tricky to get anything substantial down there safely, and the lack of sunlight means the only viable powersource for something as energy intensive as a rover is a big hefty RTG similar to Curiosity's. The delay in communications is another issue that makes a rover out there hard to manage.

What I would like to see is more of, however is a shotgun approach to probes similar to Pioneer Venus Multiprobe. Multiple small cheap probes all made in different ways to help collect more science and reduce the risk of a single failure stopping everything.

[Anonymous No.7485225]

>>7485211
Oh man this is fucked up. Literally my dream to see the surface of these moons. Why was I born in 1992?

[Anonymous No.7485232]

>>7485172
>>7485160
Io has a fuckton of volcanoes, but it also has THE FLUX TUBE which would probably be useful for colonization. But how you can set up a power plant that won't get eaten by a volcano is beyond me.

The other three big ones show promise. Ganymede has a magnetosphere and subsurface oceans (which could help with colonization both for H2O and materials but also to hide from radiation), Callisto isn't as radioactive and also has subsurface water, and Europa ALSO has subsurface water.

I'm interested in Titan, frankly. If you strapped on wings and flapped your arms you could fucking fly.

[Anonymous No.7485261]

>>7485232
Io is a qt

[Anonymous No.7485758]

>>7482467
Top cuck.

Our moon is bigger than pluto.

[Anonymous No.7485765]

>>7485758
And it cleared the neighborhood together with Earth.

[Anonymous No.7485822]

>>7482367
>You could reach escape velocity on Deimos with your bicycle
Anyone up for some Xtreme sports?

[Anonymous No.7485903]

>>7485170
But Pluto is a planet, a dwarf planet :^)

[Anonymous No.7486986]

>>7482608

>impact

what a waste! just borrow a moon somewhere, send it spinning around