Why can't humans live on Saturn?

Answer 1

Not outside of a spacecraft. You could not even reach the surface because it is deep within the crushing atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.

That notwithstanding, it is too cold that far from the Sun, and there is no breathable oxygen on any of the moons of Saturn. The one thing you would have plenty of is water, if you could melt it. The major component of Saturn's rings is rock-hard water ice.

A spacecraft in the ring system could get water, hydrogen fuel, and oxygen from the rings, if they brought a very large supply of power, such as nuclear reactors.

Answer 2

Saturn is a planet called a "gas giant". it is made of gas. people cannot walk on gas. also, there is no oxygen on Saturn, which we need to live. The gases are most likely poisonus according to my calculations. Therefore, a human colony cannot survive on the planet for which we call Saturn. --thx-- ;0)

Answer 3

This may not be right, but I think that people cannot live in Saturn because it does not have the special ability of retaining oxygen on the planet while keeping out carbon dioxide.

Above is partially correct, though. Life may have existed millions of years ago from the traces of ice. The may have formed living things that formed over time until it froze.

There are many reasons while an unaided human cannot live on Saturn.

Chief among these is the fact that Saturn doesn't have dry land(in the conventional sense). Saturn is a gas giant which means that it is simply a ball of gas held together by gravity. If one were to try to land on Saturn it would appear that the atmosphere would get thicker and thicker until the weight of all the gas on top would compress the gas into a liquid. Saturn's surface is one giant sea of liquid hydrogen. Even deeper would be a core of solid hydrogen with some heavier elements in the very center.

Second, the planet Saturn is very far away from the sun so it receives little light and heat from the sun making the surface very cold.

Third, Saturn is made up mostly of hydrogen and a bit of helium. There is none of the life supporting oxygen that we require.

There are undoubtedly many other reasons but i feel that these three items cover most of the main ones.

Answer 4

No, Saturn is a gas planet, you would just keep on falling and never reach the ground. you would eventualy blow up because of the pressure.

Answer 5

Humans cannot survive on Saturn because Saturn is composed of gasses and liquids. There is no 'surface' on Saturn. Also, humans do not posses the technology to send a human alive to Saturn.

Answer 6

Humans can't live on Saturn because it's a gas giant. Humans would not have anything to breathe and the the gravity would crush them.

Answer 7

Too cold. Too high gravity. Extreme pressure. Toxic atmosphere.