what might life on your moon be like?
Ask an astrobiologist about the prospect of finding life on Titan, and theyâll say the shrouded, orange moon is the place to go if youâre looking for bizarre life. Life thatâs not at all like what we know on Earth. Life that, instead of being water-based, uses those slick, liquid hydrocarbons as a solvent. Life that, if we find it, would demonstrate a second genesisâa second originâand be suggestive of the ease with which life can populate the cosmos.
At those rates, you want to carry as little as possible to the moon and manufacture as much as you can once you get there. Obtaining breathable air, in the form of oxygen, is fairly easy on the moon. The soil on the moon contains oxygen, which can be harvested using heat and electricity. Water is trickier. There's now some evidence that there may be water, in the form of buried ice that has collected at the south pole of the moon.