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Life on Titan could be smelly and explosive

By T.K. Randall
April 13, 2010 · Comment icon 0 comments

Image Credit: NASA
If there is life under the shroud of Saturn's moon Titan it might be both explosive and prone to the odd smell.
Dr William Bains commented on possible life on Titan - "Beam one onto the Starship Enterprise and it would boil and then burst into flames, and the fumes would kill everyone in range. Even a tiny whiff of its breath would smell unbelievably horrible."
Bains is working to find out just how extreme the chemistry of life can be. Life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, represents one of the more bizarre scenarios being studied. While images sent back by the Cassini/Huygens mission might make Titan look Earth-like and maybe even inviting, it has a thick atmosphere of frozen, orange smog.


Source: Universe Today | Comments (0)




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