Saturn’s moon Titan – three different views
Courtesy NASA
Titan, one of Saturn’s moons is like a genetic twin to Earth.  It enjoys many of the geological features of the Earth – volcanism, tectonics, erosion, deposition and atmosphere.  The rivers flowing across these plains are formed of a hydrocarbon soup with methane as its main ingredient.
However the one main difference is that it is so cold so most of the water is solid.
The true nature of this once mysterious world is now finally emerging, courtesy largely of the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint US-European venture, which deposited a landing craft on Titan, and continues …read more