Titan’s atmosphere is so dense and its gravity so weak that a person with the right winged suit could plausibly glide through its sky — and those same conditions make Titan one of the most forgiving large worlds in the solar system for a spacecraft to descend onto, even if the surface itself is colder than Antarctica by almost 100 degrees Celsius.

Titan’s air is so thick, and its gravity so gentle, that a person wearing the right pair of wings could plausibly push off the ground and glide through its sky. It is one of the strangest and most charming facts in the solar system, and it comes straight out of the physics. Those very same [...] The post Titan’s atmosphere is so dense and its gravity so weak that a person with the right winged suit could plausibly glide through its sky — and those same conditions make Titan one of the most forgi