Image data from the Huygens spacecraft that landed on Saturn's moon Titan.[الصورة الفضائية اليوم]sorae space portal website

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This image was taken by the Huygens lander of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.Titan's moon surfaceThis is a photo. Image processing has been applied to emphasize the actual colors.

Huygens was launched in 1997 as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), and landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Huygens' exploration revealed that TitanMethane and ethane lakesIt turns out that there isIt turns out that the world is a world in which hydrocarbons circulate like the Earth in which water circulates.He made major contributions to research on the origin of life and organic chemistry.

The following video was released on January 12, 2017 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) official YouTube channel.Video of the tiny Huygens spacecraft landing on Saturn's moon Titan“This video is based on real data captured during the two and a half hours of descent to Titan's surface.

At about 1:57 toward the end of the video, as Huygens lands on Titan, a black shadow can be seen passing in front of him. According to NASA, this is the shadow of the parachute that slowed the craft down as it descended.

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