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PLANETARY SCIENCE: Titan, Once a World Apart, Becomes Eerily Familiar
Richard A. Kerr
The European probe Huygens has landed on Saturn's big moon Titan and returned a postcard view of a truly alien world. Perhaps most astonishing was how familiar it all looked.