Friday, January 15, 2010

Fifth anniversary of the...

successful landing on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, occurs today. The soft-landed Huygens probe returned the first image from the surface of the haze-shrouded moon that revealed frozen hydrocarbon pebbles (click to enlarge).

Read more here about this fascinating place in our solar system which is "the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found."

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