ReviewOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life1997
Chemical evolution on Titan: comparisons to the prebiotic earth.
Review in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The Role of State-of-the-Art Quantum-Chemical Calculations in Astrochemistry: Formation Route and Spectroscopy of Ethanimine as a Paradigmatic Case.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- The Pale Orange Dot: The Spectrum and Habitability of Hazy Archean Earth.Astrobiology · 2016Article
- Assessing the Ecophysiology of Methanogens in the Context of Recent Astrobiological and Planetological Studies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015Review
- Atmospheric Prebiotic Chemistry and Organic Hazes.Current organic chemistry · 2013Article
- Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2006Article
- Is extraterrestrial organic matter relevant to the origin of life on Earth?Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 1997Review
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Abstract
Models for the origin of Titan's atmosphere, the processing of the atmosphere and surface and its exobiological role are reviewed. Titan has gained widespread acceptance in the origin of life field as a model for the types of evolutionary processes that could have occurred on prebiotic Earth. Both Titan and Earth possess significant atmospheres (> or = 1 atm) composed mainly of molecular nitrogen with smaller amounts of more reactive species. Both of these atmospheres are processed primarily by solar ultraviolet light with high energy particles interactions contributing to a lesser extent. The products of these reactions condense or are dissolved in other atmospheric species (aerosols/clouds) and fall to the surface. There these products may have been further processed on Titan and the primitive Earth by impacting comets and meteorites. While the low temperatures on Titan (approximately 72-180 K) preclude the presence of permanent liquid water on the surface, it has been suggested that tectonic activity or impacts by meteors and comets could produce liquid water pools on the surface for thousands of years. Hydrolysis and oligomerization reactions in these pools might form chemicals of prebiological significance. Other direct comparisons between the conditions on present day Titan and those proposed for prebiotic Earth are also presented.
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