ESA PR 03-2005. Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and safely landed on its surface.
The first scientific data arrived at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, this afternoon at 17:19 CET. Huygens is mankind’s first successful attempt to land a probe on another a world in the outer Solar System."
It is amazing to me how we can send a ship millions of miles through space and land it on another planet (or moon in this case). The fact that this is a Eurpoean Space Agency project using radio telescope resources from the US (NASA) and other countries shows that we can work cooperatively and acheive great success.
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Artist's impression of Huygens touchdown
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