...cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) that has a methane content of 90-98%. Together with liquid oxygen, this ...LOX + LNG fuel. They lasted from 17 to 60 seconds, with the methane content of LNG ranging from 89.3 to 99.5%. Overall, the results of these ...
...compounds that are also commonly found in the solar system: methane, water, ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide. Some of these ... the planet’s atmosphere. Solar ultraviolet light can split methane apart, initiating a chain of chemical reactions that leads...
... by the TGO, as it could mean one of two things – geological activity or biological processes on the planet. However, detecting methane alone is not enough to distinguish between these processes, but with addition of the Surface Science Platform and...
... in the plume is water, about 1 percent is hydrogen and the rest is a mixture of other molecules including carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia. And although Cassini has not yet shown that phosphorus and sulphur are present...
...lakes and rivers or freezing as snow, on Titan it is methane. This toxic environment coupled with its distance from the Sun, has...are present in Titan’s atmosphere. Eventually, the Moon’s methane cycle will mean that the vinyl cyanide condenses and is ...
... Mars book, the author gets down to the science of “Chlorophyll, Lichens and Algae”, Mars meteorites and methane. On methane, which “packs a very powerful astrobiological punch”, he explains that almost none should exist “without being actively...