Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
After descending through the upper level hurricane force winds, then a dead calm, then lightning, Huygens landed on the soft but solid surface of Titan.
The Surface Science Package (SSP) revealed that Huygens could have hit and cracked an ice ‘pebble’ on landing, and then it slumped into a sandy surface possibly dampened by liquid methane. Had the tide on Titan just gone out?TrackBack