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• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3170, 2018, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Kraken Mare, a vast hydrocarbon sea spreading some 400,000 square kilometres across the northern polar region of Titan, Saturn's largest moon is so far from the sun and so achingly cold that there can be no liquid water on its surface--and so nothing like the chemistry that sustains life on Earth is featured. Here, John Hopkins scientists Ralph Lorenz, states the possibility to base life on other liquids. He states that humans are mostly water, but the most interesting parts, the hard parts, are organic chemistry. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was the first to spot Titan in 1655, but most of what we know about its majestic weirdness comes from NASA's recent Cassini mission.