Huygens Lands on Titan: First Landing in the Outer Solar System
Twelve minutes of terror. That's how NASA engineers described the Huygens probe's descent onto Titan, the first landing ever on a moon in the outer solar system. Dropped from the Cassini spacecraft, the European-built probe plummeted through Titan's thick orange atmosphere, snapping images of an alien landscape that looked eerily like Earth — complete with rivers, lakes, and rocky terrain. But these were rivers of liquid methane, not water. And those rocks? Chunks of water-ice, hard as granite in Titan's brutal cold. A postcard from the solar system's most bizarre neighborhood, sent 746 million miles from home.
January 14, 2005
21 years ago
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