Titan may host prebiotic brew
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023589
Science News : Saturn’s moon Titan has an environment that resembles Earth’s at the time that life first got a foothold, suggest new findings from the Cassini spacecraft.Two close flybys have gathered fresh evidence that ammonia, most likely mixed with water ice, has recently erupted onto the surface of the moon. The likely presence of ammonia on Titan’s icy surface, combined with the abundance of methane and nitrogen in the moon’s thick atmosphere, together suggest that Titan may host a prebiotic brew, says Cassini scientist Robert Nelson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.The findings were reported by Nelson 5 August in Rio de Janeiro at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union
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