Christiaan Huygens: Discoverer of Titan - ESA

Born in 1629, Huygens came from a wealthy and well-connected Dutch family, who served in the diplomatic service to the House of Orange. As a young boy he ...

First images from Titan - ESA

14 January 2005. This raw image was returned by the ESA Huygens DISR camera after the probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan. It shows the ...

Solving the puzzles of Saturn and Titan - ESA

When the first space missions flew past Saturn at the end of the 1970s, very little was known about this mysterious and beautiful world. Saturn, the most distant ...

Islands, rivers and methane springs - latest images of Titan - ESA

Two new Titan features - water ice and methane springs. Mosaic of river channel and ridge area on Titan. Titan landing site seen from Cassini. All Huygens raw ...

Bouncing on Titan - ESA

11 Oct 2012 ... ESA's Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touching down on Saturn's moon, Titan, in January ...

Journey to Titan - ESA

The ESA/NASA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission was launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. Data collected during the successful landing of ...

Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth - ESA

13 Feb 2008 ... Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, ...

Cassini-Huygens - ESA

The Huygens mission is the ESA-provided element of the international Cassini- Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan jointly developed by NASA and ESA.

Titan's seasons make sharp turn - ESA

28 Nov 2012 ... Scientists using the international Cassini spacecraft have studied the rapid change in seasons on Saturn's moon Titan, following equinox in ...

Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn Moon Titan The - ESA

12 Dec 2012 ... “Such faults – fractures in Titan's bedrock – may not imply plate tectonics, like on Earth, but still lead to the opening of basins and perhaps to the ...