Re: Saturn's A Ring Has Oxygen, But Not Life
From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 02/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:40:18 +0000
In message <1109289086.190403.209860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
baalke@earthlink.net writes
>http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Feb05/r022405
>
>Saturn's A Ring has oxygen, but not life
>University of Michigan
>February 23, 2005
>
>ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing
>oxygen
>ions in the atmosphere around Saturn's rings suggests once again that
>molecular oxygen alone isn't a reliable indicator of whether a planet
>can support life.
>
Remote sensing would presumably also detect methane in the Saturnian
system, and the two together are sometimes proposed as a sign of life.
Wrong again, at least in this case!
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