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Huygens Titan descent - Artist view

by

Don Dixon/Novapix

Reference

e-son15-00026

Date

2007-01-06

The Huygens probe descends on its drogue parachute toward the upper clouds of Titan.The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched on October 15 1997. Huygens landed on Titan on January 14 2005 near the Xanadu region. The Cassini probe is placed into Saturn orbit since July 1st 2004.