Titan Touchdown: Exploring Saturn's Enigmatic Moon

TLDROn January 14, 2005, the European Huygens probe descended to Titan, Saturn's hazy moon, providing stunning imagery of its surface features, including bright highlands, dark lowlands resembling dry lakebeds, and branching drainage channels indicating the presence of methane rivers. The probe landed in a dark floodplain, capturing views of rounded water-ice 'rocks' and even its own parachute's shadow. This historic mission represents a significant milestone in solar system exploration, as no other spacecraft has landed farther from the sun.