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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2025 January 19   
      
                      Titan Touchdown: Huygens Descent Movie   
              Video Credit: ESA, NASA, JPL, U. Arizona, E. Karkoschka   
      
      Explanation: What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan?   
      The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar   
      System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent   
      images was created. Huygens separated from the robotic Cassini   
      spacecraft soon after it achieved orbit around Saturn in late 2004 and   
      began approaching Titan. For two hours after arriving, Huygens   
      plummeted toward Titan's surface, recording at first only the shrouded   
      moon's opaque atmosphere. The computerized truck-tire sized probe soon   
      deployed a parachute to slow its descent, pierced the thick clouds, and   
      began transmitting images of a strange surface far below never before   
      seen in visible light. Landing in a dried sea and surviving for 90   
      minutes, Huygen's returned unique images of a strange plain of dark   
      sandy soil strewn with smooth, bright, fist-sized rocks of ice.   
      
                          Tomorrow's picture: high north   
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