another world with amazing lakes, rain, winds, and wonder...only 6 yrs away

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Green Lantern

Twelve years ago, a small spacecraft parachuted through a thick, extraterrestrial haze and drifted down toward an alien surface. It punched a small hole in the icy ground, bounced, slid, and wobbled.

After a few seconds, it came to rest in a damp floodplain on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

On January 14, 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe became the first robot explorer to touch the surface of this smoggy, orange moon and beam back detailed pictures. Huygens frantically gathered data for about an hour before its batteries died and its mothership, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, disappeared over the horizon.

During its descent and those moments on the surface, the probe gathered enough data to give scientists a glimpse of an alien world that looks deceptively Earth-like.

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Topic - another world with amazing lakes, rain, winds, and wonder...only 6 yrs away - Green Lantern 10:55:05 01/13/17 (1)

RE: another world with amazing lakes, rain, winds, and wonder...only 6 yrs away - 6bq5 11:04:25 01/13/17 (0)

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