On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with Cassini.

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Today the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a fly-by of Saturn’s largest moon Titan – the closest ever performed. At the time of the closest approach, which is scheduled for 18:44 CEST, ...

As the Huygens spacecraft floated by parachute toward Saturn's mystery moon Titan last month, scientists feared that the results of one crucial experiment were lost forever in a communications ...

On Friday, the Cassini spacecraft’s Huygens probe is scheduled to descend into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Data from Huygens may offer clues about how life began on earth. Larry ...

NASA’s Cassini has begun to relay data received from the ESA Huygens lander as it descended through Titan’s atmosphere. They will be posted here as they become available. This is one of the first raw ...

A view of Huygens probable landing site on Titan (white circle) based on initial, best-guess estimates. ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on Jan. 14, 2005. A view of Titan ...

Reanalysis of data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, initially suggesting a global subsurface liquid water ocean on Saturn's moon Titan, now indicates the presence of a large, slushy region beneath ...

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