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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 [...]

Titan Touchdown: Huygens Descent Movie

By |2025-01-19T08:09:09-05:00January 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent images was created. Huygens separated from the robotic Cassini spacecraft soon after it achieved orbit around [...]

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