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Self-assembly of tholins in environments simulating Titan liquidospheres: implications for formation of primitive coacervates on Titan

Kawai, Jun; Jagota, Seema; Kaneko, Takeo +6 more

Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, has a thick atmosphere containing nitrogen and methane. A variety of organic compounds have been detected in the atmosphere, most likely produced when atmospheric gases are exposed to ultraviolet light, electrons captured by the magnetosphere of Saturn and cosmic rays. The Cassini/Huygens probe showed that t…