19 January 2005

Parka weather on Titan

Here is one of the pictures which the European Space Agency's Huygens probe has sent back from Titan, ostensibly the most earthlike of the many moons orbiting Saturn:


ESA


According to this report, the probe detected a surface temperature of -180 degrees Celsius upon landing. It is unclear whether this includes the wind chill factor.

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