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NASA planetary scientist tasked with discovering life in our solar system’s
‘Ocean Worlds’ has put forward the idea that a strange form of alien life lives
on Titan, the Earth-like moon that revolves around Saturn.
Dr
Amanda Hendrix, the co-lead of the NASA Roadmaps to Oceans World Group, said
her program may represent the greatest chance of discovering alien life in our
solar system, and she believes Titan could be their best shot.
“We
need to understand whether these oceans are habitable and, if so, whether these
oceans actually host life,” she told the Express.
Aside
from Titan, there are at least two more worlds that could play host to a form
of life. These other contenders are Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of
Saturn, and Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter.
Even
if an alien lifeform isn’t discovered while exploring the distant planets,
Hendrix claims a lot can be learned from visiting these worlds. “Each of these
places in our solar system is another clue about how bodies in our solar system
formed and evolved,” she said.
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