Huygens touches down!
The Huygens space probe has landed safely on Titan, one of Saturn's satellites, pictured below in the bottom-left corner.
ESA's Huygens space probe had been carried by the Cassini probe for seven years on it's journey to Saturn. The probe was designed to measure the moon's weather and chemistry, it appears to of landed on a solid surface and not plunged into an ocean of hydro-carbons as many people expected. Nobody seems to of mentioned this but it's the furthest from Earth we've ever landed a probe.
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14th January 2005 20:39:46, 87 words, 384 views
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Comment from: Catherine [Member] · http://www.catmoo.co.uk/
hehehehe i know what that is ^^ we were taught it in general studies :3 i learned
14th January 2005 @ 21:32
Comment from: chapstick [Visitor]
Hey thats cool. Next to Mars, isn't Titan the next most livable place in our solar system?
15th January 2005 @ 01:48
Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/
I always thought the Earth was just behind Mars. :)
15th January 2005 @ 02:05