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Cassini's Huygens Probe Rendezvous with Titan

Posted by michael on from the bomb's-away dept.

im333mfg writes "Tonight at 7:08pm PST, the Cassini spacecraft will be releasing the much anticipated Huygens Probe for a rendezvous with the Saturn moon Titan. It will be making a 22 day journey to the moon, and end up entering the atmosphere sometime on January 14th. 'Titan is one of the remaining puzzles of the solar system - while Cassini's imaging cameras and radar instrument have begun to reveal the details of its surface, the Huygens probe will be the first spacecraft to venture beneath Titan's thick clouds.'"

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  1. BBC News by KrackerJax · · Score: 5, Informative

    In addition to the numerous links in the post, here is an arcticle by the BBC:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/41 12917. stm

    Some pretty pictures and informative text.

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    Sauer