The Outer Solar System and Life
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Apr 26, 20262 January 1978London, UK — Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Sagan's second Royal Institution Christmas Lecture in the 1977 'Planets' series, on the giant planets and the search for life.
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The lecture explores the origin of life by comparing Earth’s extraordinary biodiversity with the shared molecular machinery of all organisms. It then connects prebiotic chemistry to the outer solar system, especially Jupiter and Saturn, as promising places to study organic chemistry and possible life.
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