Tag: Huygens

  • ESA’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan 15 years ago

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    This mosaic of three frames taken by Huygens during its descent to Titan provides unprecedented detail of a ridge area, including a network of river channels. Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Fifteen years after accomplishing the first-ever landing on Saturn’s moon Titan, lessons learned from the European Space Agency’s Huygens spacecraft continue aiding designers of future…

  • 10 years since we landed on Titan

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    Ten years ago today, on 14 January 2005, a compact, flattened cylinder called Huygens, chock-full of sensors, cameras and scientific experiments, went hurtling through the orange skies of the mysterious moon Titan. An artist’s impression of Huygens on the surface of Titan. Image: ESA/C Carreau. The surface of Titan was still largely unknown at the…