Planetary Bodies
 
 
The dark, murky, hydrocarbon-soaked landscape of Saturn's largest moon See also
The Huygens probe above the clouds of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
The Huygens probe above the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
A spacecraft orbiting Titan, Saturn's largest moon
Beneath Titan's Veil (2004)  Titan is the subject of the Huygens probe, which reached this Saturnian moon on 14 January 2005. In this image, made before the encounter, I assumed a landscape sopping with murky, frigid, liquid hydrocarbon seas, while similar substances rain from the thick air.