Titan: Earth's cousin?
This saturnian moon could be the Earth of the outer solar system.
Published:
January 25, 2010
 Titan's remarkable surface apparently has been scoured by methane rain and rivers.
Photo by NASA/JPL/SSI The effects of geological processes can be seen everywhere on the saturnian moon Titan. And they're amazingly similar to those occurring on Earth — but in very different materials. |
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