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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2025 November 30   
      A strange orange landscape is shown. What appears to be light and dark   
       orange rocks are strewn about. The landscape appears roughly flat all   
       the way out to the orange sky and horizon. Please see the explanation   
                          for more detailed information.   
      
                         The Surface of Titan from Huygens   
             Image Credit: ESA, NASA, JPL, U. Arizona, Huygens Lander   
      
      Explanation: If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The   
      featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and distant   
      landscape on Saturn's largest moon. The scene was recorded by ESA's   
      Huygens probe in 2005 after a 2.5-hour descent through a thick   
      atmosphere of nitrogen laced with methane. Bathed in an eerie orange   
      light at ground level, rocks strewn about the scene could well be   
      composed of water and hydrocarbons frozen solid at an inhospitable   
      temperature of negative 179 degrees C. The large light-toned rock below   
      and left of center is only about 15 centimeters across and lies 85   
      centimeters away. The saucer-shaped spacecraft is believed to have   
      penetrated about 15 centimeters into a place on Titan's surface that   
      had the consistency of wet sand or clay. Huygen's batteries enabled the   
      probe to take and transmit data for more than 90 minutes after landing.   
      Titan's bizarre chemical environment may bear similarities to planet   
      Earth's before life evolved.   
      
                          Tomorrow's picture: open space   
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