A view of Huygens probable landing site on Titan (white circle) based on initial, best-guess estimates. ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on Jan. 14, 2005. A view of Titan ...
On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens remains the first and only landing in any location in the outer solar system, the furthest distance from Earth a ...
On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Moving at just over four meters per second, the Huygens ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Titan wasn't enough for Europe. Now it has plans to explore Venus, Mars and a comet so distant it will take a decade to reach. After decades of running third in space ...
The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit: ESA ...
The second design, Titan II, focused on the equatorial regions, including the Huygens landing site and sprawling dune fields. These orbits used a tilt of about 11 degrees. Even after the simulations ...