Huygens' Discovery of Earthlike Terrain on Titan Seen as Boost for Exploration

The next Titan landing will likely include a rover, now that Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's largest moon has delivered enticing images and data of a landscape that looks a lot like Earth--except with hydrocarbon rain, marshy methane lakebeds and granite-like ice canyons. When the probe touched...

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