WTH is Going On? Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan (+Video)

Scientists Find ‘Impossible’ Cloud on Saturn’s Largest Moon, Titan

Titan is the largest of Saturn’s satellites. It is the second largest satellite in the solar system, and the only one known to have a dense atmosphere.

It may be the most interesting body, from a terrestrial perspective, in the solar system. For almost two decades, space scientists have searched for clues to the primeval Earth. 

The chemistry in Titan’s atmosphere may be similar to what occurred in Earth’s atmosphere several million years ago.

 Scientists discover ‘impossible’ ice cloud on Titan.
This development has prompted  scientists to suggest that a different process than previously thought – possibly similar to one seen over Earth’s poles – could be forming clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan.

Scientists believe that the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colors the giant moon’s hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.

The findings are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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