“TITAN is shockingly Earth-like.” So says planetary scientist Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, who has been amazed by data sent back by the Huygens probe, which landed on Titan earlier this month. “These could have been pictures from an alien probe landing along the Florida gulf coast.”
Titan is turning out to be a world in which alien materials form eerily Earth-like landscapes, as misfit streams of methane flow through rugged hills of ice. Even the mud appears familiar.
“We can now dream of sending rovers to the surface of Titan, or balloons to float around the moon”…
