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Film, Video Titan: An Exotic Ocean World Waiting to Be Explored

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Title

  • Titan: An Exotic Ocean World Waiting to Be Explored

Summary

  • NASA's Melissa Trainer reviewed what we know about prebiotic chemistry on Titan and explore ideal locales and exploration strategies to search for evidence of, or progression towards, life on the moon of Saturn. Following decades observing Titan, NASA scientists have discovered that the moon has all the ingredients needed to produce life as we know it. Advanced chemical synthesis takes place in its atmosphere and a subsurface ocean and icy crust provide opportunities for all of these ingredients to mix.

Event Date

  • October 11, 2018

Notes

  • -  Melissa Trainer is associate lab chief in the Planetary Environments Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she conducts laboratory research exploring the chemical processes of planetary environments.

Running Time

  • 1 hours 5 minutes 1 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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