Titan: Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Alien Life
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon of the 62 that orbit it. It has an atmosphere which contains carbon compounds and has oceans of methane and ethane. It does not however have any liquid water… on the surface. Titan’s surface temperature is -179C, which makes all surface water frozen. However it is believed that the moon has subsurface oceans of a water and ammonia mixture that could harbor life. It is also said that it’s methane oceans could support life since it was proven that life forms can survive in the chemical. NASA believes that it could hold non-water based life.
It has been rated the most habitable place in our solar system besides Earth, mostly because of its oceans. Many scientists at NASA believe Titan is what an early Earth was like, and that early life forms could be forming on it. NASA believes that it is the strongest candidate within our space travel capabilities of harboring life and wants to find out. They want to send a lander to Titan to search for extraterrestrial life but has yet to receive funding from the US Government.