Has any human landed on Saturn?

No people have ever traveled to Saturn. It's too far away. At this stage there are no plans to send astronauts that far away from Earth.
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What would happen if a human landed on Saturn?

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.
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Who landed on Saturn first?

Cassini-Huygens was a mission of firsts. First to orbit Saturn. First landing in the outer solar system.
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What year will humans go to Saturn?

Humanity could reach the Asteroid Belt in 2073, Jupiter's system in 2103, and finally Saturn as early as 2132. As discussed above, there are some significant potential differences based on the uncertainty of the planned Mars landing.
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Was Saturn once habitable?

Saturn cannot support life as we know it, but some of Saturn's moons have conditions that might support life.
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Could humans live on Titan?

Titan is not a pleasant place for life. It is far too cold for liquid water to exist, and all known forms of life need liquid water. Titan's surface is -180°C.
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Has anyone been to Jupiter?

Mankind has been studying Jupiter for more than 400 years. But we've only been sending spacecraft there since the 1970s! Nine spacecraft have visited Jupiter since 1973, and they've discovered a lot about the planet.
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Has anyone been to Venus?

No spacecraft have landed on the surface of Venus since 1985. A few orbiters have visited Earth's neighbor in the past decade. The European Space Agency's Venus Express was one. It visited Venus from 2006 to 2014.
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Has any human been to Mars?

Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet. Proposals for human missions to Mars came from e.g. NASA, Russia, Boeing, and SpaceX. As of 2023, only robotic landers and rovers have been on Mars. The farthest humans have been beyond Earth is the Moon.
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Why can't you stand on Uranus?

As an ice giant, Uranus doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling fluids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Uranus, it wouldn't be able to fly through its atmosphere unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures would destroy a metal spacecraft.
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Can humans live on Uranus?

There's no process inside Uranus, like volcanism on Earth, that would give life inside the planet a form of energy. Life on Uranus would have to be vastly different from anything we have here on Earth to be able to survive.
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Has anyone landed on Neptune?

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune. No spacecraft has orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close.
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Has anyone been to Pluto?

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
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How long will humans last?

Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J. Richard Gott's formulation of the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that we have probably already lived through half the duration of human history.
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Has anything landed on Jupiter?

As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either.
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Can we land on Mercury?

Could humans land on Mercury's surface? In spite of being so close to the Sun, and wild swings in extreme temperatures, humans could technically walk on the planet's surface. Mercury's slow rotation means it takes 59 Earth days for it to turn around once.
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Has anyone landed on Mercury?

No, Mercury has been visited by spacecraft from Earth, but no human has ever gone into orbit around Mercury, let alone stepped on the surface.
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Has anything landed on Mercury?

Has anything landed on Mercury? No! NASA may have selected two missions to go to Venus this year, but what about the first planet from the Sun? It's the only inner planet whose surface hasn't been unexplored by a robot, but that could change with the “Mercury Lander” mission.
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Can life exist on Mars?

The surface of Mars today doesn't seem like the sort of place hospitable to life. It is dry and cold, plunging down as far as -220 degrees Fahrenheit. Its thin atmosphere cannot block ultraviolet radiation from space, which would devastate any known living thing on the surface of the planet.
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Has anything landed on Venus?

Yes, several landers from the former Soviet Union have landed on Venus. They were only able to send us information for a short time because the extremely high temperature and pressure on the surface of Venus melted and crushed the landers.
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Can you walk on Neptune?

But temperatures at this region would be thousands of degrees; hot enough to melt rock. And the pressure from the weight of all the atmosphere would be crushing. In short, there is simply no way one could stand on the “surface of Neptune”, let alone walk around on it.
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Are any moons habitable?

In the Solar System's habitable zone, there are only three natural satellites—the Moon, and Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos (although some estimates show Mars and its moons to be slightly outside the habitable zone) —none of which sustain an atmosphere or water in liquid form.
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Why should we not send humans to Mars?

Sending human travelers to Mars would require scientists and engineers to overcome a range of technological and safety obstacles. One of them is the grave risk posed by particle radiation from the sun, distant stars and galaxies.
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Can humans live on Pluto?

Potential for Life. The surface of Pluto is extremely cold, so it seems unlikely that life could exist there. At such cold temperatures, water, which is vital for life as we know it, is essentially rock-like. Pluto's interior is warmer, however, and some think there could even be an ocean deep inside.
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Was Pluto once habitable?

Today, Pluto is a freezing cold world with a surface temperature of about 45 Kelvin, or -380 degrees Fahrenheit. However, the research suggests that early on during its ancient history, Pluto had higher chances of being habitable.
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