Carl T. Bergstrom1. “Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”
60sRefugee@ct_bergstrom Even if there is no cellular life in any of the outer system moons, there may be organic molecular structures that give us clues to how abiogenesis might have taken place.