Tag: NASA JPL
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Titan Chemistry Breakthrough: How Hydrogen Cyanide Forms Co-Crystals With Methane and Ethane
Titan’s Surprising Chemistry: A Break with ‘Like Dissolves Like’ Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has long captured scientists’ imaginations as a natural laboratory for studying chemistry under frigid conditions. Its surface temperatures hover around 90 kelvin, and its atmosphere is rich in nitrogen and methane — a combination that echoes estimates of Earth’s primordial atmosphere. A…