<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89db76c5-6997-4117-be35-67b19f3722dd/D8A6E2C1-2611-4E72-8081-6AFDD0B4590B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/">Titan not only has an atmosphere it has <A href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/30/liquid-lake-on-titan-confirmed/">hydrocarbon lakes</A>, <A href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/20/underground-oceans-discovered-on-titan/">oceans</A>, <A href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/05/titans-hydrocarbon-sand-dunes/">sand dunes</A> and now research has just been published proving <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/saturn/">Saturn</A>'s moon is sparkling with electrical activity. Scientists are in general agreement that organic molecules, the precursors to life on <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/">Earth</A>, are a consequence of lightning in the atmosphere</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/91109A17-1F56-4C91-A146-2AB5412E8B65" alt="NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/ESA" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/"> using data from the Huygens probe </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/">scientists have "unequivocally" proven that Titan has electrical storms</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/"> causing much excitement as this could mean that organic compounds may be found in abundance </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/">The fruits from the Cassini-Huygens mission are coming thick and fast. Only yesterday, Nancy reviewed the <A href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/30/liquid-lake-on-titan-confirmed/">discovery of liquid hydrocarbon lakes</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/">Now Titan has all the necessary components for life; it has an atmosphere with electrical activity, increasing the opportunity for prebiotic organic compounds to form, thus increasing the possibility for life to evolve</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/31/electrical-activity-on-titan-confirmed-the-spark-for-life/">Titan is already considered a "<EM>unique world in <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-solar-system/">the solar system</A></EM>" </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8A6E2C1-2611-4E72-8081-6AFDD0B4590B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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