Methane clathrates may exist on moons of Saturn and Jupiter. So, it's a good thing we have them on Earth too.
Space.com report stated,"Elsewhere in the solar system, previous research has suggested methane on Mars originates from hydrothermal reactions. On Titan, which is Saturn's largest moon, scientists think the gas originated from its building blocks since the early solar system. Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa, arguably the current best places to search for life, are thought to host methane clathrates as well.
“It’s time to update the list of ingredients in Martian air. In late 2012 NASA’s Curiosity rover drew air into its onboard laboratory and analyzed Mars’s atmospheric composition with a pair of spectrometers. The results of the investigation, published July 19 in Science, revise decades-old data on the makeup of Red Planet air and paint a broad picture of how the atmosphere has changed since the planet’s formation...
My note. Concerning astrobiology , no life confirmed in our solar system or somewhere else in the universe still stands in nature.
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