Huygens Stories

Two years ago, planetary scientists across the world watched as Europe and the US did something amazing. The Huygens descent module drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, beaming its data back to Earth via the Cassini…

Tracking ESA's Huygens Probe descent to the surface.

European Space Agency and NASA Set New Cassini-Huygens Plan June 29, 2001 Contact: Guy Webster/JPL (818) 354-6278 Franco Bonacina/ESA 011-33-1-5-369-7155 Managers for an international mission to Saturn have announced a revised plan to work around a telecommunications problem and avoid…