Ok I’m early but I hadn’t thought the Cassini probe was going to approach Titan this early. Apparently
Damn I’m excited to find out what’s down there! 
Here’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day on the subject:
Titian flyby? Damn, is it off course!!
Although one can surely understand the interest in studying heavenly bodies, and twin moon systems… 
Damn, think I just got an erection from those photos. Can’t wait until the lander drops.
How stupid do they think we are? That’s a fuzzy extreme closeup of a pomegranate.
Beat me to it. I was going to make a somewhat more obscure art-history joke about whether Huygens was going to give us a definitive analysis on the chemical composition of the color blue, but now I don’t get to.
Oh, wait. 
My thought exactly!
This is a probe intended to discover the Planet of Large-Boobed Voluptuous Women, celebrated on the cover of many a pulp SF magazine but never yet scientifically catalogued. (One of the main reasons that the Golden Age of SF is 13! ;))
You’ll note that I did link to a picture of Venus. 
In all seriousness this is a very cool picture!! I can hardly contain my excitement to see what tomorrow will bring!
“If I had my way, those two moons would achieve individual escape velocity!” she growled…
(from a short fantasy story by Theodore Cogswell. The lady speaking is upset that her man is contemplating the charms of another lady, and he has compared them to moons. It’s the first thing that came to mind when I read that.)
Latest pictures. And unfortunately, that’s pretty much what we’re going to see for now. These pics are soooooo much more than has ever seen before, but they leave me wanting …
We won’t see any better pics until mid-December when it finally gets close enough to go into orbit. Then, of course, the “big drop” in January. Ooooooooo!!!
This is damned exciting ideed. Another body in our own solar system with clouds and an atmosphere, and oceans and dry land. Wow! even if the oceans are liquid methane…
Here’s the first radar shot. I can barely see any cratering!
Are the big smooth areas seas, either liquid or frozen? The apparent lack of terrain on display here is somewhat startling.
Isn’t the lander going to be dropped on Christmas Day?
I thought Christmas was when it was to be released from Cassini and head towards Titan.
That’s right. Huygens will be released on 12/25/04 and will rendezvous with Titan on 1/14/05.
See the “tour schedule (pdf)” link on this page for a detailed list of projected event dates.
In reading other articles on today’s images, it’s apparently possible the smooth dark areas are drifts of snow, rather than seas. Ooo, this is cool.
You know with the tempertures being what they are (damn cold) maybe the continents are floating ice, or frozen ethane or somesuch.
OH wow oh wow! I can’t wait to see this stuff. Titan is the coolest moon ever!
Our moon is nice, with its tides and maybe helping life along and stuff…
But Titan has chemistry!
Come ONNNNNNNNNN January!