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Huygens Lands on Titan

Artist's impression of Huygens touchdown

The European Space Agency's probe Huygens, after being released by NASA/JPL's Cassini spacecraft on December 25, has successfully fallen through Titan's atmosphere and landed on the surface. The next few days the data from this mission will reveal the first pictures of Titan's mysterious surface as well as the composition of it's atmosphere. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and is one of the few moons in the solar system with an atmosphere, and is only the 5th body in the solar system that we've ever landed on.

Update: The first images of Titan's surface are now coming in. Click on the image to read more.


My previous posts on the Cassini-Huygens mission:
Titan or Bust 12/23
Dione and Saturn 12/17
Behold Titan 11/24
Titan's First Close-Up 10/26
Close-Up of Titan Tomorrow 10/25
- served up by Doctor Bean @ 10:50 AM