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Titan Emerges

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

a-sat99-00305

Date

2009-02-09

This is how the surface of Titan may have appeared to the European Space Agency's Huygens probe when it emerged from the satellite's ubiquitous hydrocarbon haze about 12 miles above Titan's surface. Huygens made its historic decent on 14 January 2005, making it the first man-made object to reach the surface of the satellite of another planet.