Exomoons could be excellent incubators
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
With the arrival of the CassiniHuygens mission in 2004 to Saturns satellite Titan, we terrestrials became acutely aware that similar moons could be orbiting similarly large planets in other solar systems besides our own. These extrasolar moons, or exomoons, might be a little bit difficult to distinguish with our current equipment, but our technological grasp has greatly improved in recent years. Now current studies suggest that not only can these naturally occurring satellites exist but they also might be habitable.