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Huygens Lands on Saturn's Moon Titan

sample mosaic of titan
Huygens view from an altitude of 10km
Huygens rests frozen at -180 degrees Celsius on Titan's landscape, a symbolic finale to the engineering and flight phase of this historic mission. "The ride was bumpier than we thought it would be," said Martin Tomasko, Principal Investigator for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR), the instrument that provided Huygens' stunning images among other data. When the probe landed, it was not with a thud, or a splash, but a 'splat'. It landed in Titanian 'mud'.

More: JPL - Huygens Landed with a Splat

Link: USGS - Cassini Mission

Entry posted by HotTopicsReporter on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 12:00. Filed under Cassini. The author does not allow comments to this entry.