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NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
Title:
Huygens Landing Site Revisited
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Huygens Landing Site Revisited
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This is an artist's interpretation of the area surrounding the Huygens landing site, based on images and data returned Jan. 14, 2005.

On this day, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe reached the upper layer of Titan's atmosphere and landed on the surface after a parachute descent of 2 hours and 28 minutes.

The Huygens probe was delivered to Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, which is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. NASA supplied two instruments on the probe: the descent imager/spectral radiometer and the gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.na sa.gov.

*Credit:* ESA

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January 13, 2006
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Huygens Landing Site Revisited