Titan moon can nourish life

The fog seen on Saturn's Titan moon may be a chemical component that provides organic matter that nourishes life, similar to the mist that scientists think once covered the Earth. land billions of years ago, claims by scientists at Colorado University (USA).

Some scientists have suggested that Titan's atmosphere - a collection of organic particles formed when sunlight reacts with methane - could be a clue that explains the emergence of habitat on the Fruit. land when the first organisms were formed 3.6 billion years ago.

Scientist Margaret Tolbert and colleagues at the University of Colorado conducted laboratory experiments based on measurements taken by the Huygens probe from Titan's atmosphere last year during the Cassini expedition ( cooperation between the US Aeronautics and Space Agency - NASA and the European Space Agency - ESA). They have mixed methane carbon dioxide with ultraviolet light to monitor whether there is an existence of organic mist on Earth billions of years ago under the same conditions.

Mist seen on Saturn's Titan moon
can nourish life (Photo: googlepages)

As a result, they found that a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide created such a fog in the laboratory. According to Tolbert, the chemical composition of this fog layer includes organic molecules that are easily digestible to today's living organisms and can be a source of nutrition for simple living organisms on Earth. billions of years ago.

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