The Chemistry of LIFE - (inorganic chemistry) By Scientist Cindy www.scientistcindy.com

What You Should Learn Why are living organisms “carbon-based”? Why do we need water to create life as we know it on this planet? What are the 4 major elements found in the body? Know how the position of an element on the periodic table gives us the bonding properties of that atom.. In an atom, the number of protons is equal to the number of electrons. The number of valence electrons dictates if / how that atom can bond.

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This is TITAN THE LARGEST MOON OF SATURN There could be droplets of water-ammonia mixtures rising inside Titan's oily lakes. By Titan (L): NASA/JPL/U. of Ariz./LPGNantesEarth (R): NASA/GSFC/M. Schoeberl - http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-identifies-ice-cloud-above-cruising-altitude-on-titan/ (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36515493

But instead of water oceans, it has hydrocarbon lakes. This is TITAN THE LARGEST MOON OF SATURN Titan resembles Earth perhaps more closely than any other celestial body in the solar system. But instead of water oceans, it has hydrocarbon lakes. By Titan (L): NASA/JPL/U. of Ariz./LPGNantesEarth (R): NASA/GSFC/M. Schoeberl - http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-identifies-ice-cloud-above-cruising-altitude-on-titan/ (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36515493

But instead of water oceans, it has hydrocarbon lakes. THE LARGEST MOON OF SATURN This is TITAN Surface temperature: minus 290 Fahrenheit (minus 179 degrees Celsius), which makes water as hard as rocks and allows methane to be found in its liquid form But instead of water oceans, it has hydrocarbon lakes. By Titan (L): NASA/JPL/U. of Ariz./LPGNantesEarth (R): NASA/GSFC/M. Schoeberl - http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-identifies-ice-cloud-above-cruising-altitude-on-titan/ (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36515493

This is TITAN This is a Photo A hydrocarbon lake On TITAN. THE LARGEST MOON OF SATURN This is TITAN This is a Photo A hydrocarbon lake On TITAN. By Titan (L): NASA/JPL/U. of Ariz./LPGNantesEarth (R): NASA/GSFC/M. Schoeberl - http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-identifies-ice-cloud-above-cruising-altitude-on-titan/ (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36515493

MARS And MARTIANS?? Scientists don't have any evidence yet that life ever existed on Mars, but they do know that Mars has water ice covering its poles and that Martian surface soil contains 2 percent water by weight. 

MARS And MARTIANS?? Soil samples (studied by NASA's Mars rover) have revealed that Mars would have at least been capable of supporting microbial life billions of years ago, when the planet was much wetter and warmer than it is today.

Europa Europa might be the most promising candidate for life. It is a moon of Jupiter. It is thought to harbor a huge ocean of liquid water beneath its thick icy crust. 

Enceladus Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It is approximately 500 kilometers in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. 

Enceladus Enceladus has a formidable frozen shell covering a deep subsurface ocean, which could cover an area at least as big as Lake Superior

Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted 101 geysers of water vapor and ice erupting from fractures near Enceladus' south pole