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Topic: "Building blocks of life" found on Saturn moon
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Michelle
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posted 07 July 2007 05:35 AM
Ooooh! quote: NASA's Cassini space probe has found hydrocarbons — compounds that make life possible on Earth — on the surface of one of Saturn's largest known moons, according to space agency scientists.The conclusion, based on images taken of Hyperion, is outlined in a study published in the current issue of the journal Nature. Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist and the paper's lead author, said the finding doesn't mean researchers have found life, but it's "a further indication that the basic chemistry needed for life is widespread in the universe." Hydrocarbons are the basic chemicals necessary for life, combinations of carbon and hydrogen atoms. They have been found in comets, meteorites and space dust.
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