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Titan 2121: Departing blimp

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

a-sat99-00332

Date

2010-03-17

100 years from now space exploration may have evolved to space exploitation on some very exotic worlds. Could it be possible that some day a natural resource of extraordinary value could be found on a world 700 million miles away? a resource that would justify an unprecedented investment in an infrastructure capable of bringing these resources to market? This image suggests how a large-scale mining operation on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan might appear.