Our scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The recipe is used for lab experiments designed to simulate Titan’s chemistry. With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified material discovered by our Cassini spacecraft in the moon’s smoggy haze. Now we can say that this material has a strong aromatic character, which helps us understand more about the complex mixture of molecules that makes up Titan’s haze,” said Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at @NASAGoddard.
This Cassini image from 2012 shows Titan and its parent planet Saturn.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
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