POV: Huygens probe landing on Titan
19 years ago, on 25 December 2004, ESA’s Huygens probe was released from the Cassini spacecraft. Huygens continued on to Titan, Saturn’s largest and most interesting moon, descending via parachute and touching-down at 11:30 UTC, 14 January 2005. The descent phase lasted around 2 hours, 27 minutes, with a further 1 hour and 10 minutes of operation on the surface.
This video has been accelerated to 200% speed, showing the descent from an altitude of 62 km at 9:41 UTC to the touchdown.
Credits: NASA/ESA/University of Arizona
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This is beautiful! Has this video been publicly available since it landed nearly two decades ago?
You rock
Y does it look like Google maps
Caves!
An awesome achievement!
DAMN SUCH COOL ANIMATION!!! You're tricking millions NASA, keep it up!! Using $65 million of taxpayer money per DAY and all you can muster is animated horsepoop
Why is some of titan not rendering tho😬
That’s just way cool to be able to see this happening
Thanks for posting
Как раз на праздниках смотрел фильм о Кассини!
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Crème brûlée
Amazing
Imagine what Huygens would say if he could see this.