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Bookmark or Share- Huygens Probe - NASA ScienceThe European Space Agency's Huygens Probe was a unique, advanced spacecraft and a crucial part of the overall Cassini mission to explore Saturn. The probe was about 9 feet wide (2.7 meters) and weighed roughly 700 pounds (318 kilograms). It was built like a shellfish: a hard shell protected its delicate interior from high temperatures during ...
- Huygens (spacecraft) - WikipediaEngineers expected to get at most only 30 minutes of data from the surface. Cutaway image of Huygens. The Huygens probe system consists of the 318 kg (701 lb) probe itself, which descended to Titan, and the 30 kg (66 lb) kg probe support equipment (PSE), which remained attached to the orbiting spacecraft.
- Huygens - NASA ScienceWhat was Huygens? ESA’s Huygens probe was designed to study the smog-like atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, as it parachuted to the surface. It also carried cameras to photograph the moon’s surface. Huygens traveled to Saturn aboard NASA’s Cassini orbiter.
- Titan Touchdown - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Jan. 11, 2017. Titan Touchdown. Watch on. On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. Transcript. Carried to Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system.
- Titan Landing Pictures by Huygens Spacecraft | SpaceThe European Space Agency's Huygens probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after the probe successfully detached from the...
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