Re: Titan and its atmosphere.
- From: "George Dishman" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:08:48 -0000
"MCyberiad" <cyberiad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know Titan's atmosphere is roughly 98% nitrogen and 2% methane. And
apparently methane's all over the place on that moon. Now, let's say a
spaceship crashes into the moon. There would be oxygen inside the
spaceship which could start a fire. But would the fire spread out over
the entire moon due to the methane?
So what I'm asking is, with a little bit of oxygen, could a fire break
out and cause the entire atmosphere is burn, surrounding the moon in
fire?
Thanks for any help.
On Earth, methane burns in the atmosphere and the flame goes
out when the methane is used up.
On Titan, oxygen would burn in the methane atmosphere and the
flame would go out when the oxygen was used up.
George
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