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Touch Down on Titan

Descent Through Clouds to Surface

By Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Posted 05.24.2005 at 4:00 pm 0 Comments

This short animation is made up from a sequence of images taken by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument on board ESA's Huygens probe, during its successful descent to Titan on Jan. 14, 2005.

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