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Wednesday, January 05, 2005


A parachuting probe? hope this one does better on Titan than this one did in Utah.
In two weeks, after a seven-year journey across more than a billion miles of our solar system, a tiny space probe named after a 17th-century Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, will parachute into the atmosphere of the most intriguing, least understood moon in our solar system, Saturn's Titan.

The mission marks one of the most ambitious ever undertaken by scientists and astronomers. If successful, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian space agency (ASI), will collect invaluable data about an incredibly remote world, in many ways considered a frozen version of early Earth.
Hopefully, there won't be any Hollywood stunt pilots to catch Huygens on Titan.



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