{"id":3799,"date":"2025-07-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:43:31","slug":"titans-methane-lakes-could-foster-an-early-step-in-the-creation-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/titans-methane-lakes-could-foster-an-early-step-in-the-creation-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan\u2019s methane lakes could foster an early step in the creation of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/titans-methane-lakes-could-foster-an-early-step-in-the-creat_13br.640.jpg\">Here&#x27;s why scientists can&#x27;t wait for missions to Saturn&#x27;s largest moon.<\/p>\n<p>Saturn\u2019s largest moon, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/43245\/another-world-in-our-solar-system-has-lapping-seas-scientists-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Titan<\/a><\/u><u>,<\/u> appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form that has the potential to lead to alien life. <\/p>\n<p>These microscopic bubbles \u2014 called vesicles \u2014 could naturally occur in Titan&#8217;s methane lakes, according to a new \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#x27;s why scientists can&#x27;t wait for missions to Saturn&#x27;s largest moon. Saturn\u2019s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form that has the potential to lead to alien life. These microscopic bubbles \u2014 called vesicles \u2014 could naturally occur in Titan&#8217;s methane lakes, according to a new \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}