Tupperware Found On Saturn's Moon By NASA Spacecraft: First Time Discovered In Space, Polypropylene Chemical Used To Keep Food Stored

Tupperware found on Saturn's moon by the NASA spacecraft sniffing the smoggy atmosphere of Titan, which found traces of the chemical used to make plastic Tupperware boxes.

The robotic Cassini probe has detected propylene on Saturn's moon, which is the first time this chemical that is used to make Tupperware was found on Saturn's moon and space in general.

"This chemical is all around us in everyday life, strung together in long chains to form a plastic called polypropylene," Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of a paper describing the findings told The Register about the Tupperware found on Saturn's moon. "That plastic container at the grocery store with the recycling code 5 on the bottom - that's polypropylene."

The first chemical the scientists discovered using the Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) was propylene, which was identified in small quantities at various altitudes throughout the lower levels of the soupy hydrocarbon fog found in the moon's noxious skies, according to the register. The heat radiation was measured by CIRS and was emitted as infrared light from the moon in a process that NASA described as being similar to "the way our hands feel the warmth of a fire."

The Tupperware chemical was found on Titan. Titan has a brownish atmosphere, liquid methane rain and freezing temperatures that can plummet to a frosty -180°C.