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October 06, 2014

Titan's Swirling Polar Cloud Is Cold And Toxic
Paris (ESA) Oct 06, 2014
Scientists analysing data from the mission found that this giant polar vortex contains frozen particles of the toxic compound hydrogen cyanide. "The discovery suggests that the atmosphere of Titan's southern hemisphere is cooling much faster than we expected," says Remco de Kok of Leiden Observatory and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature. Unlike any other moon in the Solar System, Titan is shrouded by a dense atmosphere dom ... read more

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