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托福听力背景材料之地球之外的生命　　Saturns largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere. Clouds. Complex organic molecules. NASA has called it one of the most Earth-like worlds we have found to date. With one glaring exception. Its awfully cold down there. Its about 94 degrees Kelvin. Which means that water would be a rock.?　　土星最大的卫星是太阳神，太阳神有厚厚的大气层。云是复杂的有机分子。美国国家航空和宇宙航行局称它为“我们迄今为止发现的和地球最相似的星球”。例外就是，这里特别冷。温度在94凯市摄氏度，这就意味着水会被冻成坚硬的石头。?　　Paulette Clancy, a chemical engineer at Cornell University. At temperatures that cold—minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit—one of the most basic biological structures, the cell membrane, c