{"id":966,"date":"2005-01-03T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/touch_down_on_titan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:34:18","slug":"touch_down_on_titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/touch_down_on_titan\/","title":{"rendered":"El descenso en Tit\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hace 450 a\u00f1os, el astr\u00f3nomo holand\u00e9s Christiaan Huygens descubri\u00f3 una gran luna que orbitaba en torno a Saturno. Con el tiempo se le llam\u00f3 Tit\u00e1n, en referencia a un gigante de las antiguas leyendas griegas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Titan es, sin duda, un gigante, el segundo sat\u00e9lite m\u00e1s grande del sistema solar. Sin embargo, hasta el d\u00eda de hoy sigue siendo un mundo rodeado de misterio. La superficie est\u00e1 oculta bajo una densa bruma anaranjada.<\/p>\n

Los cient\u00edficos saben que su densa atm\u00f3sfera est\u00e1 formada mayormente por nitr\u00f3geno, al igual que la de la Tierra. Tambi\u00e9n contiene metano, el gas que utilizamos en nuestros hogares y f\u00e1bricas.<\/p>\n

En todo caso, la temperatura de la superficie es de \u2013180 \u00b0C, tan fr\u00eda que podr\u00eda producir hielo duro como la piedra. Tal vez el fr\u00edo sea excesivo para cualquier forma de vida, aunque es posible que debajo de la superficie, a gran profundidad, exista alg\u00fan oc\u00e9ano.<\/p>\n

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Perspectiva del artista<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

La \u00fanica manera de conocer los secretos de Tit\u00e1n era enviar una nave espacial. El 14 de enero, la sonda Huygens de la ESA atravesar\u00e1 la atm\u00f3sfera suspendida de un paraca\u00eddas.<\/p>\n

Sus seis instrumentos tomar\u00e1n las primeras im\u00e1genes de esa superficie desconocida y nos revelar\u00e1n c\u00f3mo es realmente Tit\u00e1n. Huygens tocar\u00e1 el suelo a una velocidad de 5 m por segundo, como si salt\u00e1ramos desde una silla al suelo.<\/p>\n

\u00bfSe estrellar\u00e1 contra hielo solidificado, chapotear\u00e1 en un mar de metano o se hundir\u00e1 en una masa de cieno? \u00a1No pierdas de vista este espacio!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

450 years ago, a Dutch astronomer named Christiaan Huygens discovered a large moon orbiting Saturn. It was eventually named Titan, after a giant in old Greek legends. Titan was indeed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2000\/10\/christiaan_huygens_1629-16952\/17866452-3-eng-GB\/Christiaan_Huygens_1629-1695.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)","esa_banner_credit":"ESA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2000\/10\/Christiaan_Huygens_1629-16952","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-our-universe","category-planets-and-moons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}