{"588630":{"#nid":"588630","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Saturn\u0027s Moon Titan May Offer a Glimpse of Life as We Don\u0027t Know It","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENext month, NASA\u0026#39;s Cassini spacecraft will make its 126th and final pass around Saturn\u0026#39;s large moon Titan, leaving scientists with a rich picture of a geologically active world with liquid hydrocarbon lakes, complex atmospheric chemistry, and likely even a salty ocean buried beneath its icy crust.\u0026nbsp;But their biggest question will be left unanswered for now: Does Titan, which resembles a primordial Earth, have life?...Titan offers many examples of really interesting organic chemistry experiments with alternative structures, added Georgia Tech planetary scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Britney_Schmidt\u0022\u003EBritney Schmidt.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;The Titan example is fantastic because you have a sedimentary process like a terrestrial planet, but it\u0026#39;s ice involved,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s organic in nature, but it is not necessarily biogenic.\u0026quot; \u003Cem\u003EBritney Schmidt is an assistant professor with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-13 15:29:32","changed_gmt":"2017-03-13 16:03:24","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GradIO","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36010-saturn-moon-titan-may-offer-glimpse-of-life-as-we-dont-know-it.html","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588624":{"id":"588624","type":"image","title":"Britney Schmidt","body":null,"created":"1489416856","gmt_created":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","changed":"1489416856","gmt_changed":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224319","name":"Britney Schmidt.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":674589,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg?itok=HjL2uGXw"}}},"media_ids":["588624"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"81291","name":"Britney Schmidt"},{"id":"13302","name":"Titan"},{"id":"173281","name":"cassini"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}