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14 JAN. 2010
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Five years ago today ESA’s Huygens probe reached the upper layer of Titan’s atmosphere and landed on the surface after a parachute descent of 2 hours and 28 minutes. As part of the joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission to Saturn and its moons, the Huygens probe was sent from the Cassini spacecraft to explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
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Titan first images - slideshow
See some of the first images returned by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to Titan's surface.
Sounds of an alien world
Audio data collected by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), which includes an acoustic sensor, during Huygens' descent, 14 January 2005.
Huygens legacy conference Barcelona
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