573K views · 5.1K shares | Remember the Titan (Landing): Ten years ago today, Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe touched down on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Take a journey with us. The first minute shows a zoom into images of Titan from our Cassini spacecraft's cameras, while the remainder of the movie depicts the view from Huygens during the last few hours of its historic descent and landing. | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Discover more space history 👉https://trib.al/NIa43Fn Huygens was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with Cassini. Huygens was asleep for the seven-year trip, but its internal timer told it to wake up right before it entered Titan’s atmosphere. After it parted with Cassini, the descent to Titan’s surface took three whole weeks. It spent two and a half hours para

163K views · 2K reactions | • Huygens's Descent to Titan's Surface...