Reply #1: ESA's newest creme broule pic

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Huygens has landed in soil with the consistency of wet sand or clay - or, as John Zarnecki, the principal investigator for Huygens' Surface Science Package, said one team member had suggested, "crème brulé."

The scenery surrounding the landing site resembles a postcard panorama of undeveloped lakefront property, hand-tinted in pastel shades of orange.

It's hardly a typical lakefront, though - and not just because everything, including the sky, is orange. For starters, the temperature on Titan averages about minus 180 Celsius (minus 292 Fahrenheit). It makes the shore of Lake Michigan on a windy night in January seem balmy by comparison.

Then there's the composition of the liquid in the "lake." It's not water. On the surface of Titan, water is frozen as solid as granite. It's more likely liquid methane or ethane, perhaps a mixture of the two. In other words, it's a lake of liquid natural gas.

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