Challenge: Time Differences
Day lengths
Because Enceladus is a moon, it orbits around a planet – Saturn. Saturn does* experience different day lengths to year lengths. This can become a problem as it will be difficult to adjust to the day/year length that Enceladus experiences, which can lead to further problems, such as calculating the approximate time of your arrival back on Earth. Although this problem isn't life threatening or big, it's still something that needs to be considered when visiting Enceladus.
Luckily, there are many different types of technologies that enable us to calculate time differences between Earth and Enceladus. therefore allowing travellers to know the time back on Earth.
*The Year Length on Enceladus is the same as its day length.
Distance from Earth
The distance from Enceladus to Earth is 1.272 BILLION KM!!!!!!! This is an extremely long way away from Earth and we need to take this into consideration. What this means is that the journey to Enceladus would take 3-6 years, depending on how fast we were travelling, the stops along the way, and the gravitational pull of other planets.
The time it takes to travel to and from Enceladus is a problem. If tourists were hoping to stay in Enceladus for 24 hours, it would be unrealistic to travel all that way for such a short period of time.
Unfortunately, there are no ways of using technology to solve this problem, but there is a simple solution. We could choose to only make trips to Enceladus every couple of years because of the cost and make that stay on/above Enceladus longer than a day (for example a more realistic stay would be a couple of weeks or months .
Communication
There are many ways to communicate and relay messages back to people on Earth. Technologies have been invented and developed to help keep track of the time on Earth. The main problem would be trying to easily contact close family members or friends. Perhaps space stations can give families special devices to contact people on Enceladus easily at home.
Because Enceladus is a moon, it orbits around a planet – Saturn. Saturn does* experience different day lengths to year lengths. This can become a problem as it will be difficult to adjust to the day/year length that Enceladus experiences, which can lead to further problems, such as calculating the approximate time of your arrival back on Earth. Although this problem isn't life threatening or big, it's still something that needs to be considered when visiting Enceladus.
Luckily, there are many different types of technologies that enable us to calculate time differences between Earth and Enceladus. therefore allowing travellers to know the time back on Earth.
*The Year Length on Enceladus is the same as its day length.
Distance from Earth
The distance from Enceladus to Earth is 1.272 BILLION KM!!!!!!! This is an extremely long way away from Earth and we need to take this into consideration. What this means is that the journey to Enceladus would take 3-6 years, depending on how fast we were travelling, the stops along the way, and the gravitational pull of other planets.
The time it takes to travel to and from Enceladus is a problem. If tourists were hoping to stay in Enceladus for 24 hours, it would be unrealistic to travel all that way for such a short period of time.
Unfortunately, there are no ways of using technology to solve this problem, but there is a simple solution. We could choose to only make trips to Enceladus every couple of years because of the cost and make that stay on/above Enceladus longer than a day (for example a more realistic stay would be a couple of weeks or months .
Communication
There are many ways to communicate and relay messages back to people on Earth. Technologies have been invented and developed to help keep track of the time on Earth. The main problem would be trying to easily contact close family members or friends. Perhaps space stations can give families special devices to contact people on Enceladus easily at home.
Time Differences By: Hannah G