footage from NASA satelite "Huygen" landing on Titan (moon of Saturn)

This is a short video clip of the Huygens spacecraft landing on Titan,
a moon of planet Saturn.
Saturn's moon Titan — larger than the planet Mercury and the only moon with an atmosphere — has always intrigued astronomers. Results exceeded expectations when the Huygens probe deployed its parachutes and drifted down through Titan's chemical haze, revealing bright highlands that drain in a river-like way to flat, dark lowlands, before landing in a material with the consistency of wet sand after a descent of 2 hr 28 min.
The surface colour is approximately what a human observer riding along with the probe would see if she or he could see through Titan's atmospheric haze. In the last few kilometres the point-of-view turns south, the direction the Huygens Probe is believed to be facing as it sits on the surface today.

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Science & Technology

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• nasa
• space
• saturn
• titan
• satelite
• astronomy
• moon

[samwardell]

The Huygens spacecraft was built by the European Space Agency, not NASA.

[alexhamster1134]

i dont think this is the LIVE footage from the cameras, its probably a topographical map which has been textured with the surface?

[nateextreme0969]

@Ralpymorris no douht but who is to say that another civilization didnt land acouple probes on us at our early stage, fully understand the concerns and its something we need to be careful of but we will probally have humans walking on titan in +100 years whos to say we can pick up our landers and send them bk to earth to be studied and put on display for future generations.

[nateextreme0969]

@mysay2u dont worry they are working on it or maybe even the first lake lander is being planned titan mare explorer which i think i would prefer more since we really dont have true data on the lakes on another world probally by 2020 we should have one on titan.

[mysay2u]

They were very lucky not to have landed in the mountains but its too bad they never landed a craft like the rovers on Mars.

[Ralpymorris]

High concentration of organic materials, why not consider that life is gong to appear in few millions of years if our artifacts don't cause any damage, as patentized on movie Space Oddisey.

[sparters]

@xChrisBoulterx deep in the ocean, we don't have insects, but the crustaceans there do survive, Hydrothermal vent communities are able to sustain such vast amounts of life because vent organisms depend on chemosynthetic bacteria for food. The water that comes out of the hydrothermal vent is rich in dissolved minerals and supports chemo-autotrophic bacteria. These bacteria use hydrogen sulfide, a chemical highly toxic to most organisms, to produce organic material through chemosynthesis.

[gamecollect101]

The Huygens spacecraft was built by man.

[claton95]

@samwardell you're point?

[noogetful]

Yeah I think I'm with Chris on most of this. Except the liquid oceans aren't water at all- they are some sort of "liquid natural gas", and they would have to be- as the average surface temperature is lower than -300 degrees. Enceladus is the moon of saturn with liquid and frozen water- even geysers.

[xChrisBoulterx]

@eivissak lol?

[eivissak]

@xChrisBoulterx Yes!!! Of course I'll come to your tea party!! Are you going to be serving cupcakes!?!?!?