Huge Cloud on Saturn's Moon Titan Is Made of Toxic Cyanide

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 12:41 in Astronomy & Space

A giant cloud that covers the south pole of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a surprisingly poisonous nature: It's made of cyanide. The giant cloud, first spotted by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2012, is the size of Egypt and covers Titan's south pole.

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