Mike Malaska on Nostr: On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on ...
On January 14, 2005 just over 20 years ago today, the Huygens probe touched down on the organic-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
Here is the scene from Titan's surface.
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232Scientists (I'm one of those) have been analyzing this image and the other descent images from the probe for 2 decades. What have we learned from the probe images about the surface of enigmatic moon?
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