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The radar that we've been flying around Saturn
and passing by Titan periodically,
we've been able to map out the surface brightness as the radar sees it.
We see geologic processes that are very similar to what we see on the Earth.
This is a computer generated 3-D fly through of an area of karst topography on Titan.
It was generated by inferring the topography and then laying a radar image down on top
of the 3-D map.
This area is an area called Sikun Labyrinthus on Titan.
It's an area of karst topography very similar to the karst topography we find on Earth,
especially in places like Jamaica,
Puerto Rico or China.
It's an area where liquid methane here on Titan has dissolved the rocks and produced
a residual landscape
of just hills and valleys with no river valleys flowing through the area.
So it's yet again another process that we see on the Earth that we find on Titan
making Titan very similar to the Earth in many ways.