Current Affairs Exam

Methane in the Moons of Saturn

By flying through the plumes of Saturn’s moons (Titan and Enceladus), NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered an abnormally high concentration of methane, as well as carbon dioxide and dihydrogen

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It discovered methane in Titan’s and a liquid ocean with erupting plumes of gas and water on Enceladus.

An international research team used new statistical methods to determine whether methanogenesis, or microbe-produced methane, could explain the molecular hydrogen and methane.

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