Titan Shoreline

Nearly exactly a year ago, ESA's Huygens probe detached from its Cassini mothership and descended onto the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is believed that Titan's organic chemistry is similar to that of the young Earth, and therefore, it may provide insight into how life began to form on Earth. The above image is a panorama of images taken during Huygens' descent, showing a shoreline with dark channels resembling rivers on Earth.

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Surely a deja view of Titan when we finally get there and man reurns to growth and discovery over greed and destruction
It feels like a glimpse through a portal to a termendous future
Keep in mind this:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051221_mars_dry.html
Mars had surface waters and was a perfect place for life in 2004, but within the year that has all changed...Titan may be no different...so there's only one Earth...and I put it there :-)
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