What do we know? Pre-Cassini

I also remind you that some chemical gunk collectively called "tholins" was made in Carl Sagan's lab in the 1970s. The original goal of making this stuff was to reproduce the observed spectrum of Titan.

The gunk? It was made out of CHON and its final product including a bunch of organic molecules.

We now know that Titan's atmosphere includes organic molecules like ethane (C2H6), acetylene (C2H2), ethylene (C2H4), propane (C3H8), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and other more complicated organic species.

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