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Turning now to Science Daily as NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments

called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon, Titan.

Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface.

However, Titan's lakes and seas are not filled with water.

Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons, like ethane and methane.

On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been essential for the origin of life as we know it.

Many astrobiologists have wondered whether Titan's liquid could also provide an environment

for the formation of the molecules required for life, either as we know it or perhaps as we don't know

it, to take hold there. New NASA research, published in the International Journal of

Astrobiology, outlines a process by which stable vesicles might form on Titan based on our current

knowledge of the moon's atmosphere and chemistry. The formation of such compartments is an important

step in making the precursors of living cells or protocells. The process involves molecules

called amphiphiles, which can self-organize into vesicles under the right

conditions on earth these polar molecules have two parts a hydrophobic end or

water-fearing and a hydrophilic or water-loving end when they're in the water

groups of these molecules can bunch together and form ball-like spheres like

soap bubbles where the hydrophilic part of the molecule

faces outward to interact with the water, thereby protecting, quote unquote, the hydrophobic

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