Splash, Thud, or Whimper? Cassini's Huygens Probe Rendezvous with Titan
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On December 24th, 2004, at 7:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, the Cassini spacecraft will release a probe that has hitched a ride all the way from Earth out to Saturn. The Huygens Probe, named after the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan and Saturn's rings in the 17th century and built by the European Space Agency, will spend 22 days traveling to its rendezvous with Saturn's mysterious moon Titan on January 14th. ...
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The prospect of the Huygens probe landing on a hard, soft or liquid surface when it lands on Titan next January still remain following further analysis of data taken during the Cassini mother ship&#39;s closest encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon during its
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THE MISSION: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in a mission to provide clues to how life arose on Earth.
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It is an encounter that planetary scientists and space science enthusiasts have been waiting for as the Cassini-Huygens Probe darts into the upper atmosphere of the Saturn moon Titan on Tuesday afternoon October 26th.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft streaked by Saturn&#39;s smoggy moon Titan today, targeted to pass within just 750 miles of the planet-sized satellite to give scientists their first
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a getaway maneuver on Monday, Dec. 27, to keep it from following the European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan.
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Lost in the pre-election noise and the hoopla over the Red Sox march to the World Series title was perhaps the most remarkable event of all -- the visit to the atmosphere of the Saturnian moon Titan last week by the space probe Cassini, which negotiated
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn.
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A European spacecraft has started a journey into the unknown as scientists prepare to land on Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The Huygens probe was expected to separate from its mothership, Cassini, at about
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The Cassini-Huygens mission&#39;s second (comparatively) close encounter Monday with Saturn&#39;s moon Titan generated more atmospheric drag on the spacecraft than expected, NASA mission controllers say.
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Scientists are none the wiser as to what awaits the Huygens space probe on Saturn&#39;s moon Titan when it lands, despite a close pass by its mothership.
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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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Contrary to what some scientists believed before the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft made a close pass of Titan Tuesday, preliminary results from the orbiter
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It&#39;s an encounter that everyone has been waiting for: on Tuesday, October 26, Cassini-Huygens will streak past Titan in the mission&#39;s first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon.
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The European-made space probe Huygens headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, the only celestial body of the Solar system with an atmosphere resembling that of Earth, after successfully separating from the US spacecraft Cassini.
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Saturn's moon Titan is covered by  "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of  scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data  from the space probe Huygens.
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Get ready for two of the strangest hours in the history of space exploration.  That's how long it will take the Huygens probe to parachute to the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan.