Titan Revealed
Jan. 14th, 2005 01:28 pmCross-posting from http://planetary.org/news/2005/huygens_blog.html. The surface of Titan:

Update: BTW, it just came to my mind that among all Solar System bodies Titan is the most human-friendly... If you can call that -180 C a friendly environment :) Still, this is the only body in the Solar System where a human can survive for at least several minutes with the equipment you can find in the stores, such as scuba oxygen mask and lots, lots of thick fur clothes :)) Not funny? Well, in other places it's even worse. Except for the Earth, of course :)

Update: BTW, it just came to my mind that among all Solar System bodies Titan is the most human-friendly... If you can call that -180 C a friendly environment :) Still, this is the only body in the Solar System where a human can survive for at least several minutes with the equipment you can find in the stores, such as scuba oxygen mask and lots, lots of thick fur clothes :)) Not funny? Well, in other places it's even worse. Except for the Earth, of course :)