One small thump ...

Huygens landed on Titan yesterday and sent back some beautiful images of the surface of Saturn's moon. The ESA probe, which traveled on board NASA's Cassini's spacecraft for the last seven years, was ejected by Cassini to travel the last 4 million kilometres of its journey to Titan on its own. At 5:15AM yesterday, the probe entered Titan's atmosphere, collecting data and taking pictures. The descent took 2.5 hours, and the probe continued transmitting data for an additional 1.5 hours after landing on TItan. All data was sent to Cassini to be recorded and relayed to Earth via NASA's Deep Space Network. In addition to the photographs and chemical data that was collected, the Huygens also listened. Click here for the audio -- mostly of the probe descent through Titan's atmosphere.

Composite of Titan's Surface Seen During Descent

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