Why isn't there life on Saturn?

Answer 1

While we don't have absolute proof there is no life of any kind of Saturn, the assumption is very likely correct (ie. no life) for several reasons. If there is some kind of life, it would have to endure conditions that life from Earth could not possibly survive (including bacteria and fungi, which are particularly hardy.)

1. Saturn is very cold. At 10 times the distance from the Sun that Earth is, Saturn receives 1/100th (square of the distance) as much energy per unit area. Thus, Saturn's atmosphere varies from -100 Degrees C to almost -200 Degrees C. With so little heat, and so little sunlight, life doesn't have much of a chance to form or thrive.

2. Saturn is primarily Hydrogen, Helium, Methane, and Ammonia. Hydrogen is far too reactive for life to survive within it, as the hydrogen would tend to bond much more easily to fragile DNA molecules, tearing them apart. Life requires some kind of DNA in order to reproduce, and it needs to be stable. The next most common element, Helium, doesn't react with anything (it is a Noble Gas).

3. Saturn has wickedly fast winds, measured upwards of 1,800 kilometers per hour. This would create extremely violent conditions which would be utterly destructive to fragile life.

4. The only place warm enough to support life would be thousands of miles deep into the clouds, where pressures are very high. It might be possible for some sort of life to survive in those conditions, except that with the very high winds, vortices would form and shift material upward from the deeper layers and downward through them - dragging anything in those "safe zones" into the extremely hostile environments on either side. This happens so continually and on such a large scale that those "safe zones" would in fact not be safe at all.

5. Finally, the ring system proves the Saturnian system is extremely dynamic, with many moons having already been torn apart and swallowed by the planet. Just like a large meteorite slamming into Earth, life could not survive regular bombardments of ring debris and moons pulled into Saturn's atmosphere by its enormous gravity (75 times that of Earth).

Answer 2

Saturn's environment is not conducive to support life as we know it. Its extreme cold temperatures, lack of a solid surface, and high levels of radiation make it inhospitable for organisms to survive. Additionally, Saturn's atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, which are not suitable for sustaining life.

Answer 3

no of course not the weather of Saturn is too extreme for any thing to sustain life

No you can not because The avrege temperature is -350

it cant because of...wind and its all gas.

Answer 4

We don't know that for sure. The chances appear to be very slim however, because Saturn is made of gasses and dust until you get into the center where it's white hot.

Liquid water, carbon and nitrogen are generally thought to be necessary to host life.

Answer 5

There is, at least in theory, a very small probability that life might exist in or on Saturn. But it is a gas giant and so it can never sustain life as we know it on earth. You wouldn't get to 'land' on anything until you are deep within the mass of gas, and crushed by immense pressure as you hit the small solid core.

Answer 6

Because Satun is too far from the Sun! So it's too cold to live on!

Answer 7

because there is no air to breathe or solid ground to plant food on.

Answer 8

Saturn is too cold for life, because it is much further from the Sun than Earth is.

Answer 9

There isnt life on Saturn because it is too cold and humans/animals wouldnt be able to breathe do to the lack of oxygen.

There isnt any water or food so that is the end of that!

Answer 10

Too cold, not enough oxygen.