The next voyage

• Autores: Stuart Clark
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3143, 2017, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Clark talks about the Cassini mission. The Huygens lander, built by the European Space Agency, descended to Titan's surface in 2004, and data from it and Cassini's many fly-bys has only strengthened most astronomers' belief that Titan has significant astrobiological interest. Huygens found no evidence of life on Titan, and suggestions of possible life signs on the frosty moon--which would have to be life not as we know it, based on liquid methane instead of water--are tenuous. Cassini suggests that virtually all moons and planets in the solar system might have been seeded with the ingredients of life