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NASA Salutes Successful Huygens Probe
Jan 15, 2005 |
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today offered congratulations to the European Space Agency (ESA) on the successful touchdown of its Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan. The probe entered Titan's upper atmosphere at ...
Spanish scientists confirm the existence of electric activity in Titan
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Physicists of the University of Granada and the University of Valencia (Spain) have developed a proceeding to analyse specific data sent by the Huygens probe from Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, proving "in an unequivocal ...
Sounds From Titan And New Images
Jan 16, 2005 |
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ESA presents audio data collected by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), which includes an acoustic sensor, during Huygens' descent, 14 January 2005. A couple of more pictures have been revealed. On 14 Jan ...
Sights and Sounds of Titan
Jan 17, 2005 |
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by Dr. Tony Phillips The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Huygens probe, carried to Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft, parachuted to the surface of Saturn's giant moon Titan on Friday, Jan. 14th, revealing finally what lies beneath Titan's thick orange c ...
Scientists: Methane may be Titan's 'water'
Sep 12, 2005 |
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Scientists say methane might serve the same purpose on Saturn's moon Titan that water does on Earth, the BBC reported Monday.
Huygens sets off with correct spin and speed
Jan 11, 2005 |
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On Christmas Day 2004, the Cassini spacecraft flawlessly released ESA’s Huygens probe, passing another challenging milestone for Cassini-Huygens mission. But, with no telemetry data from Huygens, how do we know the ...
Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed ...
UK scientists get a 'whiff' of Titan's surface
Jan 21, 2005 |
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Further insights into Titan were unveiled today (21st January 2005) as scientists involved in the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission presented further results and images a week to the day after the successful desc ...
Cassini-Huygens Mission Celebrates Anniversary
Oct 19, 2005 |
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On the eighth anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the teams involved can look back at a string of remarkable discoveries.
Huygens lands on Titan!
Jan 14, 2005 |
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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 ...
In Depth: Tide out on Titan? A soft solid surface for Huygens
Nov 30, 2005 |
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The Surface Science Package (SSP) revealed that Huygens could have hit and cracked an ice ‘pebble’ on landing, and then it slumped into a sandy surface possibly dampened by liquid methane. Had the tide on Titan ...
Landing on Titan: The new movies
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May 04, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) have made two new movies of the Huygens probe's landing on Saturn's giant moon, Titan, on Jan. 14, 2005.
First measurement of Titan’s winds from Huygens
Feb 09, 2005 |
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Using a global network of radio telescopes, scientists have measured the speed of the winds faced by Huygens during its descent through the atmosphere of Titan. This measurement could not be done from space because of a configuration problem with one ...
Huygens probe ready to detach from Cassini mother craft
Dec 24, 2004 |
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After a seven-year and 3.2 billion km journey from Earth to Saturn, ESA’s Huygens probe, travelling on board NASA’s Cassini mother craft and powered through an umbilical cable, is now ready to separate and continue its j ...
Saturn's Icy Moon Iapetus
Jan 04, 2005 |
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moon Iapetus at a distance of 123,400 kilometers (76,700 miles) on Friday, Dec. 31. NASA's Deep Space Network tracking station in Goldstone, Calif., received ...
