Artist's Impression of One of the First Ever Images From Beneath Titan's Thick Cloud Layers (IMAGE)

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Artist's Impression of One of the First Ever Images From Beneath Titan's Thick Cloud Layers

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Artist's impression of one of the first ever images from beneath Titan's thick cloud layers, sent back by the Huygens probe in 2005. Smooth stones, possibly containing water-ice, are strewn about the landscape. Analyses of Huygen's images and data show that Titan's surface today has intriguing similarities to the surface of the early Earth.

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