Reap the whirlwind (Image: University of Arizona/JPL/NASA/ESA)
Editorial: “No aliens on Mars? No problem, we will look elsewhere“
METHANE clouds scud over an icy landscape that barely registers a temperature above -180 °C. If life exists on Titan, surely it has to be about as otherworldly as any our solar system could support?
Perhaps not: a simulation of conditions on Saturn’s giant frigid moon shows that some of the key molecular precursors of life as we know it are likely to have formed there. The results raise the odds that Titans, if they do exist, might be less alien than we imagine.…
