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There's also a LOT of methane on Saturn's moon Titan.
by HPsquared 4y ago
There's also a LOT of methane on Saturn's moon Titan.
- ben_w 4y agoIIRC, chemical bio-signatures are out of equilibrium chemicals: if some environment has only CH4 or only O2 that says basically nothing, but if it has both CH4 and O2 then (because these rapidly react to form H2O and CO2) the combination would suggest some process is creating methane and oxygen from water and carbon dioxide, which suggests[0] life. [0] I don't know anything else which does this, but that's mostly because I'm a software engineer and my highest chemistry qualification is a 22 year old GCSE grade B.
- sgt101 4y agoI have a Biology A level (!) and also gave up Chemistry A level after 1 year (!!) and I think that you are right.