Extraterrestrial life may be more strange than thought

Instead of water, extraterrestrial organisms can live in the sea of ​​liquid methane. Or do not need energy from the sun, they can live well because of HCL acid . Scientists must go in new directions if they want to find extraterrestrial life.

The new recommendation of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) could drastically change future space flights, in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system.

The report concludes that scientists must consider expanding the list of life-defining features, including " strange " life forms that Earth's organisms do not have. Rather than just digging into the Martian soil, since there were traces of water there, the NAS asked probes to search for Saturn's Titan moon, which also had sea of ​​methane or ethane.

In fact, the report concludes that Titan is the strongest candidate in the solar system with strange life.

"In a carbon world, there will be a lot of different compounds there, and there will probably be carbon compounds that make up life," said John Baross, the team leader.

Illustrating NASA's Huygens ship bobbing on the sea of ​​methane on Saturn's Titan satellite, the candidate considered the most heavyweight to have life in the solar system.
(Photo: National Geographic)

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