I was going to mention this yesterday, but there weren’t any photos. As you may know (and as Vern reminded me), the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan:
It was a triumph for the hundreds of scientists and technicians in 19 countries who have been laboring on the probe for nearly 25 years–but an even larger triumph for human knowledge. Titan’s organic chemicals are thought by many to be the very array of constituents that marked early Earth 4 billion years ago and which combined here into complex forms to launch the long journey toward life itself.
Today, via the probe’s site, we find the first photos of Titan from the surface. Combine this with the Mars landings and the X-Prize business, and you feel a bit like we’re entering another golden age of space exploration.
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