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More Incredible Photos From Titan...
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A scientist watches in Darmstadt's ESA-Space
center, as European-made space probe
Huygens lands on Titan. A European robot
lab parachuted to the surface of the Saturn
moon Titan, successfully climaxing a venture
to explore one of the most beguiling
phenomena in the Solar System, mission
leaders said in Germany(AFP/DDP/Martin
Oeser)
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European Space Agency image from
television, Friday, Jan. 14, 2005 after the
Huygens space probe beamed data including
this image back to earth through its Cassini
mothership orbiting Saturn's moon Titan.
The data are expected to shed light on what
Titan's atmosphere and surface are made of,
and possibly on the origins of life on Earth.
(AP Photo/ ESA)
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A model of the European-made space probe
Huygens. A European robot lab parachuted to
the surface of the Saturn moon Titan,
successfully climaxing a venture to explore one
of the most beguiling phenomena in the Solar
System, mission leaders said in Darmstadt,
Germany(AFP/DDP/Martin Oeser)
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The sunlit face of Saturn's rings shows
magnificent detail. Most notable is the transition
in brightness toward the outer edges of the
image, due to differences in composition and
ring particle density. The image was obtained
from Cassini's vantage point beneath the ring
plane.(AFP/NASA (news - web sites)/HO)
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First Titan Images
Cassini Images
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This composite was produced from images returned Friday January 14, 2005, by ESA's Huygens
probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around
Huygens. The left-hand side, behind Huygens, shows a boundary between light and dark areas.
The white streaks seen near this boundary could be ground 'fog', as they were not immediately
visible from higher altitudes.These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometres and
a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA (news - web sites)/University of
Arizona)
This NASA handout image shows a Cassini
view of Titan's upper
atmosphere(AFP/File/Nasa/Ho Ho)
First 'best-guess' view of Huygens landing
site, When the probe landed, it was not with
a thud, or a splash, but a 'splat'. It landed in
Titanian 'mud'.
This picture is a composite of 30 images from
ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an
altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8
kilometres when the probe was descending
towards its landing site.
Raw image of Titan's surface with scale
