Wednesday night, 2 February, I will be at the Adler Planetarium, addressing the Chicago Astronomical Society on "Exploring Titan and Its Neighbors."

(My best guess: Since Titan is hazy all the time, the groundhog there will never see his shadow.)

An entertaining way to introduce Titan news, from Betty Nguyen on a CNN program called Livefrom on Friday:

"You can count on the fingers of just one hand the planets, or planetary bodies, on which mankind has landed a spacecraft.

"And today, from all indications, we reached

[dramatic pause, with appropriate gesture] --the Pinkie ( Read more... )

While I slept, a radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, has picked up Huygens's faint carrier signal, so we know at least that the probe entered the atmosphere of Titan and operated its transmitter ( Read more... )