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15 JAN. 2005
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These images were returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan.
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Raw image of Titan's surface with scale
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Huygens' view of Titan
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Composite of Titan's surface seen during descent
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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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 lands in Titanian mud
Although Huygens landed on Titan's surface on 14 January, activity at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, continues at a furious pace. Scientists are still working to refine the exact location of the probe's landing site, seen above.
View from ten kilometres high
This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8 kilometres when the probe was descending towards its landing site. View all raw images.
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