Goose the Blog 2.0

This picture is swiped from the CNN website. ESA doesn't seem to have any pictures posted, and the website is swamped anyway. Poor, poor overworked computers. They do their best.

After searching Technorati for Huygens blogs I found out that the picture was apparently taken below the haze at 16km altitude, and CNN is calling it "top.main.titan.shoreline.jpg" so "on the beach" seemed appropriate.

Update 4:32pm: NASA and ESA are now posting some images on their websites. In one picture, you can clearly see ice blocks on the surface - Titan is about half water ice and half rocky material. It is far too cold on the Titan surface for the water ice to melt or even sublimate, so there is little or no liquid water or water vapor. Speaking of that, the "shoreline" in the above picture could be the shore of an ethane lake.