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Titan’s largest crater might be the perfect cradle for life

Posted in chemistry, quantum physics, space

Impacts on Saturn’s mysterious moon may have mixed water and organic molecules in a warm environment.


Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that can measure the chemical properties of materials at unprecedented time and spatial resolutions.