Saturn's moon Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle uncannily like Earth's — but the liquid is methane, the bedrock is frozen water ice, and the whole system runs at minus 179 degrees Celsius.
The Huygens probe, dropped from the Cassini orbiter in January 2005, parachuted through an orange smog and photographed something no camera had ever seen from the ground: a floodplain of rounded cobb… [+8241 chars]