Space Probe Begins Descent to Saturn Moon Titan
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A European-designed space probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey researchers
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The European-built space probe Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Friday, sending back indications it was alive and well and leaving scientists eager for its first research data.
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The US-European spacecraft Cassini has begun beaming close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan to Earth. Cassini reached the point of closest approach, 1,198 km, at 10.
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At the beginning of next year, the descent probe, Huygens, will try to sample what lies beneath the thick atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Huygens passed its last in-flight checks and scientists are preparing for the perilous, one-way trip towards the surface.
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A European-designed space probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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The U.S.-European spacecraft Cassini hurtled Tuesday toward its closest encounter yet with Saturn's giant moon Titan.
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The Huygens probe will be woken up from its slumber four hours before its January descent into the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.
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Los Angeles Times - The European space probe Huygens hurtled through a poisonous atmosphere Friday and landed on Saturn's frozen moon Titan, sending back images of what scientists were calling the strangest landscape in the solar system.
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LOS ANGELES -- NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft on Tuesday made its closest pass yet to to Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The spacecraft took the first detailed pictures ever of the moon&#39;s surface.
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Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, will soon get its first visitor from Earth. A European space probe is to split off on Christmas from its US mothership for a three-week long descent to the mysterious
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Space engineers sent Europe&#39;s Huygens probe sweeping towards Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, yesterday. Officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said they had received a signal confirming
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THE European space probe Huygens is headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, one of Saturn&#39;s moons and the only body in the solar system with an atmosphere resembling Earth&#39;s.
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On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe will try to descend to the surface of Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan--a biochemically rich moon dominated by hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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PASADENA, Calif. - The US-European spacecraft Cassini hurtled Tuesday toward its closest encounter yet with Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan.
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The study of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon, will be one of the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s central goals. The probe will execute 45 close flybys during its four-year mission, with the first Tuesday morning.
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DARMSTADT. Germany --&nbsp; Europe's Huygens descent  probe will deliver its promised data on Saturn's moon, Titan, despite the loss  of one of two communications lines with which the probe communicated with NASA's  Cassini Saturn orbiter, U.S. and European scientists said Jan. 15.