Can humans walk on Saturn?

With the recent announcement by NASA that they have found evidence of water flowing onto Saturn’s moon I can’t help but imagine what it must be like to walk on that surface. If you have been to space, you know just how hard it is and how important having a cushion for landing is. So now we need to know if the moon’s water is flowing onto Saturn’s moon Triton.

Theoretically speaking, yes it could. Since the Cassini probe has found ocean currents on Saturn’s moon Triton, it would make sense to think that water could be moving in that ocean. But can humans walk on the ocean? That remains to be seen. In fact NASA may very well find out soon enough whether or not liquid water flows onto the ocean’s ocean bottom.

Another problem comes up with the idea of walking on the moon’s surface. The moon is very much different from Earth and we really don’t understand it well enough to try. It would take scientists a very long time to develop a plan for doing so. And we probably don’t want to put the human population at risk with a mission to try and do that.

So back to the original question, “Is it possible to walk on the moon?”. If the water did have some sort of liquid content, it wouldn’t be too different from attempting to walk on a sandpaper surface. It would still be quite hard, perhaps too hard for humanoid creatures, and even with the technology we have today it wouldn’t be easy at all.

There are many people who are incredibly optimistic about the idea. One reason is because of all the technological advances we have seen over the past couple of decades. We can build a base station on the moon today and if we wanted to it could be done. Then there is the idea of sending up explorers from the space station to land on the moon and do some scientific research. These types of missions have the potential to last for several years. Then, what if we had something like an ocean base where we could have bases and make stations in the outer atmosphere of the earth to land rovers and vehicles on.

All this research would be very expensive and the cost of getting people to the moon and back would be enormous. However, if we had some way to build large ocean bases where we could live and travel and do experiments and so on and so forth, it might make a lot of sense. But then again I think we should consider whether or not aliens really walked on the moon. Perhaps we should leave the subject alone.