Aug 27, 2015 11:42 PM
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-al...03179.html
EXCERPT: In a new paper published in the journal Life, Prof Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University and his colleagues from Germany draw upon what is known about Earth’s most extreme lifeforms and the environments of Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, to paint a picture of what alien life could be like. Earth life, with its unique biochemical toolset, could feasibly survive on a terrestrial, Mars-type planet with a few novel adaptations. [...] If life does exist on Titan or a Titan-like planet elsewhere in the Universe, it uses something other than water as an intracellular liquid....
EXCERPT: In a new paper published in the journal Life, Prof Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University and his colleagues from Germany draw upon what is known about Earth’s most extreme lifeforms and the environments of Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, to paint a picture of what alien life could be like. Earth life, with its unique biochemical toolset, could feasibly survive on a terrestrial, Mars-type planet with a few novel adaptations. [...] If life does exist on Titan or a Titan-like planet elsewhere in the Universe, it uses something other than water as an intracellular liquid....