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The Surface of Titan from Huygens

By |2025-11-30T15:44:25-05:00November 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and distant landscape on Saturn's largest moon. The scene was recorded by ESA's Huygens probe in 2005 after a 2.5-hour descent through a thick atmosphere of nitrogen laced with [...]

The Surface of Venus from Venera 14

By |2025-05-11T09:09:07-04:00May 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless [...]

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