NASA announced a new mission to Titan, Saturn's mysterious moon
s north pole, a vast liquid water ocean roils deep underground. Organic compounds, dropped by TitanThe organic material just litters the surface,” Turtle says. Organics are the building blocks for life on Earth.
No one knows if all that means Titan might have life, either existing or extinct, above ground or below. says Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division.’s surface is much like the early Earth. Examine it with Dragonfly, and clues to how life ignites on a world—or fizzles out—may emerge.But now, with a lone drone able to fly, land, and linger on a moon 900 million miles away, researchers may ultimately learn “the chemistry that led to the development of life on Earth,” says Turtle.Understates Turtle:
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