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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

"Page One" Story of the Century? NASA May Announce Thursday to Have Found Life on Saturn's Moon Titan

"Page One" Story of the Century? NASA May Announce Thursday to Have Found Life on Saturn's Moon Titan: "NASA has called a 2 p.m. news conference for Thursday 'to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.' The group includes Pamela Conrad, author of a paper on geology and life on Mars; and James Elser, an Arizona State University professor involved in a NASA-funded program that emphasizes looking at the chemistry of environments where life evolves (and not just looking at water or carbon or oxygen); Felisa Wolfe-Simon (an oceanographer) has written extensively on photosynthesis using arsenic recently (she worked on the team mentioned in this article); Steven Benner (a biologist) is on the 'Titan Team' at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; they're looking at Titan (Saturn's largest moon) as an early-Earth-like chemical environment. This is likely related to the Cassini mission."

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