Was released from Cassini on December 24 and enter Titan's atmosphere on January 14. It will take two hours for Huygens to parachute to the surface. After touchdown the probe will sample Titan's ...

And that they were able to pick up from Earth, it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical piece of science with the carrier signal alone and that is ...

The European atmospheric and lander probe Huygens was taken on a six-year journey to Saturn by Cassini with the express aim of exploring ... surface of frozen methane on 14 January 2005 after a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons.

Lighter and more efficient than the plutonium batteries used on current planetary missions like Cassini ... Lemke and Foch have to go on is Huygens’ parachute drop in 2005.

At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring.

Released from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the Huygens probe descended by parachute for some 2.5 hours before surviving its landing. The European Space Agency craft remains humans’ farthest ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...

A recent study utilizing radar experiment data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has unveiled fresh insights into the composition and behavior of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near Titan ...