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The precursors of life could form in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan

The precursors of life could form in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan

NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. These lakes and Titan‘s seas are filled with liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane rather than water. And though we know water is a key ingredient of life on Earth, astrobiologists have theorized …

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