Titan's surface scene of same-sized rounded cobbles and patches of dark sands fading into a distant hazy orange horizon.

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   Mike Malaska (mike_malaska@deepspace.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 00:56:08 JST Mike Malaska

   On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on the organic-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

   Here is the scene from Titan's surface. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232

   Scientists (I'm one of those) have been analyzing this image and the other descent images from the probe for 2 decades. What have we learned from the probe images about the surface of enigmatic moon?

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