Extremophiles
This is the main source of photons for most plants.
What is the sun?
Alleged detection of this molecule caused a whirlwind within the astrochemistry community as it is a biomarker for life.
What is Phosphine?
This molecule constitutes ~94-98% of Titan's atmosphere due to the high energy barrier in reversing reactions that form this molecule.
What is N2?
Europa and Enceladus, respectively, are moons to these planets.
What are Jupiter and Saturn.
This is the characteristic feature of a comet.
What is its coma?
This geological feature at the bottom of the ocean provides an alternative energy source for organisms.
What are hydrothermal vents?
This environmental effect has caused the temperature of Venus to skyrocket.
What is the runaway greenhouse effect?
While Titan is only 10A.U. away from the sun, it's solar flux is this percent of Earth's.
What is 1%?
This source of energy may cause Europa to have a subsurface ocean.
What are tidal forces from Jupiter?
This sphere of celestial objects marks the edge of what is considered our solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
This trait of the DNA sequencing of thermophiles aids in its survival.
What is an increase of C-G nucleobase pairings?
This counterargument to the detection of phosphine is that the analysis of the data may have induced large errors.
What is using a 12th order noise-fitting polynomial?
This NASA mission spent nine more years than expected analyzing the outskirts of our solar system.
What is the Cassini mission?
This geological feature on Enceladus's southern hemisphere has an increased surface temperature indicating the possibility of cryovolcanism.
What are the Tiger Stripes?
This feature of comets' orbits differentiate them from asteroids.
What is their eccentricity?
These organisms thrive under extreme pressure.
What are piezophiles?
This is the molecular formula for phosphine.
What is PH3?
This probe landed on the surface of Titan.
What is the Huygens probe?
Enceladus is primarily responsible for this feature on Saturn.
What is Saturn's E-ring?
These asteroids precede and follow Jupiter.
What are Trojan asteroids?
These polyextremophiles could survive under cold temperatures with low water concentrations.
What are cryoxerophiles? (Cryo/psychrophiles "love" the cold and Xerophiles "love" a lack of water)
These two molecule constitutes approximately 98% of the venusian atmosphere.
What are CO2 and N2?
The poles of Titan are covered in lakes and rivers comprised of these molecules.
What are methane and ethane?
This chemical component of Enceladus's plumes strongly indicates subsurface temperature high enough for liquid water.
What are amino acid precursors?
This is the reason why Pluto is no longer considered to be a planet.
What is its weak gravitational field is unable to clear its orbit?