Allusions/references To Actual History, Geography and Current Science
The depiction of Titan's surface is speculation based on respectable scientific data that was available in 1997 - in fact the book "Lifting Titan's Veil" notes that Baxter's story paraphrases closely sections of papers by Lorenz on raindrops on Titan and the geomorphology of crater lakes. The Cassini probe's study of Titan, which began in 2005, has recently borne out that there do appear to be liquid lakes on the moon.
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