Scientists unravel chemical makeup and origin of dunes in Saturn’s moon Titan | Technology News, The Indian Express

Scientists unravel chemical makeup and origin of dunes in Saturn’s moon Titan | Technology News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Los Angeles |Updated: October 22, 2019 3:17:09 pm

Scientists unravel chemical makeup and origin of dunes in Saturn’s moon Titan

The researchers, including those from the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa in the US, examined remote sensing data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan.

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and one of the locations in the solar system that is thought to possess the ingredients for life. (Source: NASA)

Scientists have found the chemical composition of organic dust dunes present on Saturn’s moon Titan, an advance that sheds more light on the mechanism by which carbon-based structures form in extreme cold environments in space.