The Surface Science Package (SSP) revealed that Huygens could have hit and cracked an ice “pebble” on landing, and then it slumped into a sandy surface possibly dampened by liquid methane. Had the ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride ...
It’s been eight years since the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Now, to celebrate this anniversary, and to make sense of the data sent back to Earth, a ...
This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg ...