Chemical trail on Titan may be key to prebiotic conditions

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 12:01 in Astronomy & Space

NASA’s Cassini and Huygen’s missions have provided a wealth of data about chemical elements found on Saturn’s moon Titan, and Cornell scientists have uncovered a chemical trail that suggests prebiotic conditions may exist there. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, features terrain with Earthlike attributes such as lakes, rivers and seas, although filled with liquid methane and […]

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