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Huygens Titan landing - Artist view

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: e-son15-00025

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 10 cm

The Huygens spaceprobe descends to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in this diagram depicting the mission sequence. 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.

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2004 - ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - CASSINI - HEAT SHIELD - HUYGENS - ILLUSTRATION - LANDING - PARACHUTE - PLANET - SATELLITE - SATURN - SATURN'S MOON - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE - TITAN -