probe Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan. The probe arrived after being carried from Earth by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This remains the most distant landing from Earth and the first and only ...
A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...
and from that get an idea of the velocity of the Huygens probe as it went through the Titan atmosphere and how it changed with altitude, for example, and with shifting winds. It's just amazing at ...
it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour descent onto Titan, where it landed surrounded by rounded blocks of ice. Huygens ancient saw dry ...
The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things ... that have stolen the show for we know now that Enceladus and Titan are thought to have the right conditions for life.