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Images from the dramatic descent of the Huygens probe to the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan.
Taken on January 14, 2005, these views show the dramatic descent of the Huygens probe to the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, one of the most distant touchdowns ever made by a spacecraft. Part of the European Space Agency-NASA-University of Arizona effort to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the images were put together with data collected by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer instrument during the probe's 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft, sandy riverbed.
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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