Space news: Are there life on Titan ? (saturn's largest moon)

Analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft regarding the chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, suggest a very interesting revelation. 

The analysis, coming from two new papers, show that -

• although hydrogen flows down through the atmosphere of Titan, it disappears near the surface;
• there is a lack of acetylene - a hydrocarbon which is used on earth as a fuel and a chemical building block - at the surface of Titan, compared ot other hydrocarbons. 

 Although there is a possible non-biological but chemistry-based explanation, 'some scientists believe these chemical signatures bolster the argument for a primitive, exotic form of life or precursor to life on Titan's surface. According to one theory put forth by astrobiologists, the signatures fulfill two important conditions necessary for a hypothesized "methane-based life." '

In short, there is a possibility, though still as a possible explanation, and further research is required, that some really exotic lifeform is having Hydrogen and Acetylene for lunch(*) on Titan !

Definitely worth the time reading, in my mind. If true, this might be one of the most important scientific discoveries ever, in so many ways.

(*) Lunch is of course a metaphore here. As it is a hypothetical methane based lifeform, it might just as well be breathing it, diffusing it, or consuming it in some other authentic way of its own...

(**) Originaly, I enjoyed another Nasa discovery, regarding a 500 meters long asteroid hitting Jupiter

       several months ago, but we-might-have-spotted-life-out-there is definitely more interesting (: