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space3 months ago•11 min saved

Titan Landing Revisited: Huygens’ 2005 Descent and Its Ground Truth

ESA’s Huygens probe parachuted for 147 minutes through Titan’s orange haze, landed on a cold plain of ice pebbles, and transmitted for 72 minutes before Cassini’s relay ended the link—making it the first and still the only spacecraft to land on a world in the outer solar system. The descent, released from Cassini on December 25, 2004, revealed a landscape of channels and methane-etched ice blocks; one Doppler Wind Experiment channel failed, but the data and surface imagery supported Titan science and ground-truthed orbital maps, with NASA’s Dragonfly mission planned to explore Titan in 2034.

via Space Daily|

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space-exploration3 years ago•1 min saved

Exploring Saturn's Triumph: JPL's Space Age Journey - Part II.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spent over 13 years studying Saturn and its moons, including Titan and Enceladus. The mission made significant discoveries, such as the presence of lakes and seas of liquid methane on Titan and geysers spewing water ice particles from Enceladus. The European Space Agency's Huygens probe also descended to the surface of Titan, revealing signs of volcanoes and an ocean hidden beneath its icy shell. The mission fundamentally altered our understanding of the solar system and raised questions about the potential for life on these moons.

via SciTechDaily|

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