The Case for a Return to Enceladus
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Those Co Crystals Form Because of the Conditions on Titan
These crystals form because of these conditions on titan. They're made out of larger molecules, and so far to my understanding, they are pure. Because of that, we don't have a lot of examples here on earth to study them. Luckily though, the conditions of titan are relatively easy to reproduce in the lab,. assuming that you have access to liquid, liquid nitrogen. That's one of the ways that we can study and characterize these compounds.
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