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Could life on Earth mean life on Titan?

Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, has long been known to contain a dense atmosphere and a frigid environment. Because of these conditions, scientists believed sustaining life on this moon would be difficult, perhaps to the point of being almost impossible. Later on, the Cassini-Huygens Mission, which launched in 1997 and reached Saturn in 2004, revealed concentrations of liquid hydrocarbon lakes covering about 10 percent of Titan's surface. It was this attribute of Titan that excited researcher Dirk Schulze-Makuch when he and his colleagues found an abundance - about 10

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