[extropy-chat] Huygens: First visitor to Titan

[Hal Finney]

The images this morning are even more spectacular, at
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/ and
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_0.html .
There's a panoramic view taken as the craft spun during descent,
and the first color pictures from the surface.

It looks to me like we landed in the so-called "ocean", the flat dark
area, with the light colored "land" actually being rugged, mountainous
terrain.  And even though they've labelled the "horizon" in that first
landing picture, I don't think it's really the horizon, but rather the
"coastline" with the mountain I observed being the higher ground which
from above looks like land.

Hal