In January 2005, the Huygens probe parachuted for 147 minutes through Titan’s orange haze, landed on a cold plain scattered with ice pebbles, and kept transmitting from the surface of Saturn’s largest moon for 72 minutes before Cassini carried its signal out of view

In January 2005, the Huygens probe parachuted for 147 minutes through Titan’s orange haze, landed on a cold plain scattered with ice pebbles, and kept transmitting from the surface of Saturn’s largest moon for 72 minutes before Cassini carried its signal out of view

At 4:34 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on January 14, 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe came down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, after a 147-minute parachute descent through orange-brown haze. It landed on a cold plain scattered with rounded ice pebbles, then kept sending data from the surface for another 72 minutes. The probe was more than a billion kilometres from Earth. Cassini, the NASA orbiter that had carried Huygens to Saturn, was the only spacecra…