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Non-water solvents Methane-based life Methane is relatively abundant in the Solar System and the Universe, and is known to exist in liquid form on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Though highly unlikely, it is considered to be possible for Titan to harbor life. If so, it will most likely be methane-based life. [citation needed]
Water is necessary for life under all its forms presently known on Earth. Without water, microbial activity is not possible. Even if some micro-organisms can be preserved in the dry state (e.g., after freeze-drying), their growth is not possible without water. [citation needed] Micro-organisms also require sufficient space to develop.
Water is important in many geological processes. Groundwater is present in most rocks, and the pressure of this groundwater affects patterns of faulting. Water in the mantle is responsible for the melt that produces volcanoes at subduction zones. On the surface of the Earth, water is important in both chemical and physical weathering processes
NASA's Perseverance rover found water, organics, and chemical energy in a Martian rock, hinting at possible ancient microbial life. ... and clear evidence that water—necessary for life—once ...
"And water is necessary for life as we know it." He said he believes Mars' underground reservoirs could be harboring some form of life. "It's certainly true on Earth − deep, deep mines host life ...
The vast majority of the water—and arguably carbon—necessary for life must have come from the outer Solar System, away from the Sun's heat, where it could remain solid. Comets impacting with the Earth in the Solar System's early years would have deposited vast amounts of water, along with the other volatile compounds life requires, onto the ...
Liquid water, which is necessary for all known forms of life, continues to exist on the surface of Earth because the planet is at a far enough distance (known as the habitable zone) from the Sun that it does not lose its water, but not so far that low temperatures cause all water on the planet to freeze.
Although life eventually adapted to live on land, the first forms of life on Earth appeared in liquid water. [7] As a result, the search for extraterrestrial liquid water is closely related with the search of extraterrestrial life. [8] Liquid water also has several properties that are beneficial for lifeforms.