Yummy!

Okay, this is the headline of the week for me: Titan Probe Drops Into 'Creme Brulee'-Like Surface.

The more I read the comments of these scientists working on this Cassini mission, the more I want to hang out with them. They say the funniest things, right in the middle of trying to be all serious and scientific:

We think this is a material which may have a thin crust, followed by a region of relatively uniform consistency," John Zarnecki, the scientist in charge of experiments on Titan's surface said at a televised news conference from the control center in Germany.

Zarnecki said one of his colleagues had suggested another analogy: creme brulee. "But I don't suppose that will be appearing in any of our papers," he said.