What Huygens Saw On Titan - New Image Processing | Video

Today in 2005 : The probe Huygens lands on Titan, a moon of Saturn, in the first successful landing in the outer Solar System.



For the probe landing’s 10th anniversary, a new sequence has been rendered from Huygens’ Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) data. The craft landed on Saturn’s largest moon on 14 Jan 2005. -- Landing Animation: http://goo.gl/6t6XuA



Credit: Erich Karkoschka, DISR team, University of Arizona

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