I think the mission team is trying to keep their expectations neutral; after all, we don't really know what's there.<br /><br />Lakes of methane (or ethane or other organic chemicals) are plausible, but uncertain. It is also possible that Titan has a surface similar to Europa -- young, and constantly reshaped as various fluids well up from inside the moon. So far, very little is known. The first radar images are back, and they show practically no impact features, so we can be fairly confident that Titan's surface is indeed young, at least in the areas observed during the recent flyby.<br /><br />It's exciting, isn't it, to have a world so incredibly mysterious? This must be what it was like when the first spacecraft began visiting Venus. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>