We're on the surface of Titan!

eh, why no colour one?

sometime yesterday evening, while we were all unwinding into the weekend on a lovely friday evening here on earth, all of us - at least those of us outdoors - were being ever so gently bathed in the invisible glow of data bits raining down on earth from the Cassini space-probe cum Huygens lander rebroadcasting station. we got pictures from the surface of possibly the only other body in the solar system with liquid on its surface! this is awesome crazy! okay, okay. so it is just rocks and dirt that looks like rocks and dirt. but this is rocks and dirt that nobody has seen before from a world 1.2 billion kilometres away!

it reminds me yet again of the amazing tinyness of man and the mind blowing bigness of God. after centuries of science and technological progress and 25 years of planning, we get one tiny keyhole peep of a world that is only a infinitesimal picofraction of all the fabulous design ideas of God realised at creation.

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:

Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host one by one,

and calls them each by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:26