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nayukitoday at 3:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

Does Titan have enough oxygen to allow the combustion of hydrocarbons?


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 8:58 AM

> Does Titan have enough oxygen to allow the combustion of hydrocarbons?

Titan's atmosphere "is a largely anoxic environment, with little oxygen to cause the termination of complex organic reactions" [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10961852/

bitmasher9today at 3:53 AM

This would make a great plot point in a space opera.