Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will be the only evidence of its partner's journey.Huygens is probably in the very spot where ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe were named after two famous astronomers: Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.

A complete and in-depth site about the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe. Updated daily, it includes an overview of NASA’s mission in launching Cassini, the construction of the actual orbiter ...

Crashing Cassini : 1A It's the end of an era in space exploration: the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's 20-year mission to Saturn is about to end with a bang — and a ball of fire. You may not know ...

Cassini-Huygens was an unprecedented foray into the unknown. It was not our first close-up glimpse of Saturn — the Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 probes had zipped by the planet in 1979 ...

In 2005, it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe into the atmosphere of one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, to find a world with rivers, lakes and seas. Equinox In 2008, the Cassini ...

The Frisbee-shaped Huygens probe successfully separated from the Cassini spacecraft Friday and began a risky 2.5-million-mile journey to the surface of Saturn's bizarre, smog-choked moon Titan.

The Cassini-Huygens mission — a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency — has been a prolific pioneer of Saturn's moons.

Jan. 14, 2005. Historic Huygens landing. About three weeks after detaching from Cassini, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe lands on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

The Huygens bit of that is the Huygens lander, built by the European Space Agency to study Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The Cassini orbit released the lander and sent it plunging through the moon ...