An Upcoming NASA Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Could Find Chemicals Key to Alien Life

An Upcoming NASA Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Could Find Chemicals Key to Alien Life

“On Titan’s icy surface, liquid water could have filled the bottom of Selk Crater for tens of thousands of years after the ancient impact that formed it.

When NASA’s Dragonfly spacecraft arrives on Saturn’s moon Titan in 2034, it will explore the area around Selk Crater, an impact crater just north of Titan’s equator. Selk Crater is interesting because at some point in Titan’s hazy past, there was probably liquid water there

 — and it probably had the chance to interact with hydrocarbons to, just maybe, form some of the building blocks of life. The ancient comet impact that formed Selk Crater would have melted water and kickstarted a series of chemical reactions that could have produced the chemicals that gave rise to life on Earth.”

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inverse.com/science/titans-surface-liquid-water