Huygens Lands on Titan

[Arminius]

http://www.esa.int/images/landing01_L.jpg

This raw image was returned by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera onboard the European Space Agency's Huygens probe after the probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan. It shows the surface of Titan with ice blocks strewn around. The size and distance of the blocks will be determined when the image is properly processed.

http://www.esa.int/images/landing03_L.jpg

This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres per pixel. It apparently shows short, stubby drainage channels leading to a shoreline.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

[Stupid Cappie Bears]

Well it certainly looks like there is or was water on Titan. It doesn't mean there will be life there like Mars appeares to have once had water but there are no signs of life there.

Is that what you're trying to get at with this post...

It could all just be foresight of what may happen to the earth in the next few million years who knows.

[ComradeChris]

One scientist on the news said that they believe the frozen rocks to be frozen Hydrocarbons. But they think there's water there too.

[Wurkwurk]

I know I sound a little too optimistic but...
with water, ice, and some sort of athmosphere, maybe life exists there :)

[Discarded Wobbly Pop]

I thought they were sure ther was water. :unsure:

I thought the theory was that the heat genetrated by titan itself could provide for photosynthesis.

I've been following this one since they launched it when I was like 14. :P

[Dyst]

Well, it can't really be water, but there might be ice. I think the temperature on the surface was like -180* celsius or something... There are many scientists who claims that the second picture, with the "shoreline" and all that, isn't water, it is some sort of stone material, possibly even floating.