Huygens Lands on Titan

[deborahjross]

How did I miss this? Back in 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe got a lift from Cassini and made its way to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, recording the journey and 90 minutes on the surface. For all the carping about space exploration being dead because the shuttle program ended, I think it's astonishing to see these images from a planet no human eye has previously glimpsed. Titan is shrouded in dense clouds, opaque to visible light.

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