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Astrobiological Research Priorities for Titan

Author(s): Mark Allen

Co-Author(s): Carrie Anderson, Andrew Coates, A. James Friedson, Murthy Gudipati, Kostas Kalogerakis, Ralph Lorenz, Jonathan Lunine, Catherine Neish, Conor Nixon, Lucy Norman

Panel Selection: Satellites: Galilean satellites, Titan, and the other satellites of the giant planets.

Institution: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Titan, the haze-enshrouded moon of Saturn, has the largest accessible inventory of organic molecules in the Solar System outside of the Earth. The prospects are high for the formation of prebiotic compounds not unlike what might have preceded the origin of life in the early history of the Earth.

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