NASA recreates Huygen's historic landing on Titan in video (video)

 January 17, 2017 - 12:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Before NASA's Cassini probe captured the most detailed images of Saturn ever, it dropped its companion Huygens on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The probe's historic landing took place on June 14, 2005. Now, the space agency has taken the data and actual photos Huygens sent 12 years ago to recreate part of its two-and-a-half hour descent into Titan's hazy atmosphere, Engadget says.

The video features what the probe saw from an altitude of around 6 miles, including the moon's rugged highlands and deep ravines.

Thanks to both Cassini and Huygens, there's now more information about Saturn and its complex moon, where temperatures can drop as low as hundreds of degrees below freezing. Huygens remains the only spacecraft we've ever landed on a celestial body outside the solar system. However, that could change if NASA pushes through with its plan to send a sub to find any sign of life in Titan's methane sea.