Ahh I didn’t realize, I thought it was only exposed solid surface. Does that mean every other solar system body with water doesn’t have separate islands/continents? Because if no, then earth should be depicted as one solid shape without the divisions as well. I get it though, it’s for scale.
Does that mean every other solar system body with water doesn’t have separate islands/continents?
Am I reading this wrong, or were you under the impression liquid water isn’t a special Earth thing (and the defining factor of the habitable zone)? I’d say you’re in the lucky 10,000, but that fact is actually kind of depressing to learn.
Titan is the only other one with known surface liquids of any kind. I suppose Randall Munroe could have given it’s lakes of natural gas the same treatment.
This is part of the reason why some people are skeptical of human space travel; all the other real estate out there is pretty bad, and looking at this map I realise it’s not even that much, really. You basically have barren rocks like the moon, bottomless atmospheres like the gas giants and Venus, and then Titan.
Oh yeah, seriously Mars is a really bad choice of an exoplanet to colonize, so small the gravity difference will kill you if none of the other horrible things about it.
Venus is actually the most reasonable and likely to be habitable but you know… We have to figure out the whole “stop it from melting us” thing and the constant volcano action aint helping.
We will probably colonize space on asteroids with slave labor before anywhere else in this solar system.
Ahh I didn’t realize, I thought it was only exposed solid surface. Does that mean every other solar system body with water doesn’t have separate islands/continents? Because if no, then earth should be depicted as one solid shape without the divisions as well. I get it though, it’s for scale.
Am I reading this wrong, or were you under the impression liquid water isn’t a special Earth thing (and the defining factor of the habitable zone)? I’d say you’re in the lucky 10,000, but that fact is actually kind of depressing to learn.
Titan is the only other one with known surface liquids of any kind. I suppose Randall Munroe could have given it’s lakes of natural gas the same treatment.
Yeah I overestimated a teeny tiny bit the number of places in the solar system that have liquid water on the actual surface. My bad.
No problem!
This is part of the reason why some people are skeptical of human space travel; all the other real estate out there is pretty bad, and looking at this map I realise it’s not even that much, really. You basically have barren rocks like the moon, bottomless atmospheres like the gas giants and Venus, and then Titan.
Oh yeah, seriously Mars is a really bad choice of an exoplanet to colonize, so small the gravity difference will kill you if none of the other horrible things about it.
Venus is actually the most reasonable and likely to be habitable but you know… We have to figure out the whole “stop it from melting us” thing and the constant volcano action aint helping.
We will probably colonize space on asteroids with slave labor before anywhere else in this solar system.
You were within one order of magnitude, don’t fret!
What is the lucky 10,000?
Also aren’t there other moons of that gas giants that have liquids like liquid methane(?) where people speculate there could be types of life?
You’re part of today’s lucky 10,000 learning about the lucky 10,000!
Nope, it’s just Titan. There’s other moons that have deep liquid water oceans under their frozen crust, which might be what you’re thinking of.