Titan Surface

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 10/15/2012 07:38 AM EDT on SPACE.com The surface of Saturn's huge moon Titan has the consistency of soft, wet sand with a fragile crust on top, a new analysis of a nearly eight-year-old space probe landing suggests. Researchers reconstructed the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landing on Titan, which occurred in January 2005.

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