POV: Huygens probe landing on Titan
19 years ago, on 25 December 2004, ESA’s Huygens probe was released from the Cassini spacecraft. Huygens continued on to Titan, Saturn’s largest and most interesting moon, descending via parachute and touching-down at 11:30 UTC, 14 January 2005. The descent phase lasted around 2 hours, 27 minutes, with a further 1 hour and 10 minutes of operation on the surface.
This video has been accelerated to 200% speed, showing the descent from an altitude of 62 km at 9:41 UTC to the touchdown.
Credits: NASA/ESA/University of Arizona
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Que falso, nadie más se ha dado cuenta? Cuando ya casi aterriza se ve todo como una imagen de satélite aplanada de Google earth… Muy bien NASA! Keep trying!!
Soviet space program was notable in setting many records in space exploration, including the first intercontinental missile (R-7 Semyorka) that launched the first satellite (Sputnik 1) and sent the first animal (Laika) into Earth orbit in 1957, and placed the first human in space in 1961, Yuri Gagarin. In addition, the Soviet program also saw the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963 and the first spacewalk in 1965. Other milestones included computerized robotic missions exploring the Moon starting in 1959: being the first to reach the surface of the Moon, recording the first image of the far side of the Moon, and achieving the first soft landing on the Moon. The Soviet program also achieved the first space rover deployment with the Lunokhod programme in 1966, and sent the first robotic probe that automatically extracted a sample of lunar soil and brought it to Earth in 1970, Luna 16. The Soviet program was also responsible for leading the first interplanetary probes to Venus and Mars and made successful soft landings on these planets in the 1960s and 1970s. It put the first space station, Salyut 1, into low Earth orbit in 1971, and the first modular space station, Mir, in 1986. Its Interkosmos program was also notable for sending the first citizen of a country other than the United States or Soviet Union into space
Good game 😂😂😂
This is your captain. We will sortly be landing on Titan, please fasten your seatbelts. Thank you for flying Ryanair
Titan Uranus?
Odly similar to our own mountain ranges
"Landing" ?😮
And people believe this 😂
I think space agency’s should study Neptune way more I think Neptune is where you would find lots of science there
Incredible!
Why does it look like a Google Earth digital simulation
Looks computer generated. AI