A View from Huygens - Jan. 14, 2005

A movie depicting views from the space probe Huygens as it descended onto the surface of Saturn's moon Titan has just been released... This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on Jan. 14, 2005. In 4 minutes and 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe 'saw' within the few hours of the descent and the landing. On approach, Titan appeared as just a little disk in the sky among the stars, but after landing, the probe's camera resolved little grains of sand millions of times smaller than Titan. A music-only version of the video is available at: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08118. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. And for more information on this story please click link below: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/video-details.cfm?videoID=117