NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has deployed a lander called Huygens with Titan On December 25, 2004, the European spacecraft lifted off towards the planetary system of Saturn on the Cassini probe. Huygens was inactive during the seven-year journey, but an internal timer told him to leave before he entered Titan’s atmosphere .
According to Space, after Huygens split from… Cassini vehicleIt took three weeks for it to descend to the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, and it landed on January 14, 2005.
The spacecraft spent two and a half hours skydiving through Titan’s atmosphere and relaying the data back to Cassini, which beamed the data back to Earth.
Huygens sent the data back after it landed, and within an hour and a half before its batteries ran out, Huygens’ data and images revealed Titan to be one of the most similar places in the solar system.
The moon has a thick atmosphere made of nitrogen and methane and is covered in lakes of liquid methane, Huygens has even found organic molecules on Titan.
Scientists now believe Titan may be the best place to look for life in the solar system.
