Could X-Rays Be Creating DNA On Titan?

Over at New Scientist , there ’s an intriguing article about how x - rays from the Lord’s Day could be stirring up the molecular soup on Saturn ’s Sun Myung Moon Titan – and at long last make DNA . Recently researchers simulated Titan ’s air in the lab to see what it would take for the moon – whose atmosphere make it standardized to Earth in some ways – could ever make up life as we know it .

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The research worker bombarded the setup with X - ray for up to three days , representing the radiation therapy that Titan would get from the Sunday over a full stop of about 7 million year . Afterwards , the still - frigid surface contained some constituent compounds , but nothing that could be called the building blocks of living .

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But when they heat the sample to room temperature , adenine appeared .

That imply Titan ’s saucepan of proto - life would need a reference of extra heat to activate . If there was a warm period in Titan ’s history , perhaps prompted by volcanic activity or meteoroid impacts , “ a primitive living could have had a chance to flourish there ” , the investigator write .

And Titan is due to be heat up in the next few billion years , when the sunshine bloat into a reddish giant star , expatiate to the present orbit of Earth , they say .

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