On Titan found a cloud of hydrocyanic acid
Scientists from the Netherlands, England and France have found over the South pole of Titan cloud of hydrogen cyanide. The results of own researches of the authors published in the journal Nature.
The accumulation of frozen particles of hydrocyanic acid was found by the experts in early may 2012. Then it was located over the South pole of Titan at an altitude of about 300 km
Analyzing the spectra acquired from the cloud using the space probe Cassini (Cassini), the scientists were able to find the chemical composition of the cloud. Data and other studies suggest that the temperature near the South pole at 100 degrees Celsius lower than foreshadows the doctrine.
This cooling occurred, approximately, after the polar vortex that raged in the South of the planet in early 2012. Opening of the scientific workers may lead to the revision of certain provisions of the models describing the circulation of gas in the atmosphere of a moon of Saturn.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. Its diameter is one and a half times the diameter of the moon, and weighs almost in 2 times more. In a planet's atmosphere is dominated by nitrogen impurities methane, which form clouds and cause precipitation.
The mission Cassini-Huygens" is a joint project of NASA, the European space Agency, the Italian space Agency and the jet propulsion Laboratory of the California scientific and technical University. Its main task is the study of Saturn, its rings and its largest satellite, Titan.
In order to achieve the desired result October 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral in Florida was launched unmanned space ship. July 1, 2004, he walked out to the orbit of Saturn. December 25, 2004 from the satellite separated probe Huygens", January 14, 2005 landed on the surface of Titan.
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