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Cassini-Huygens - Landing on Titan – the new movies. View from Huygens on 14 January 2005 4 May 2006 A little more than one year after the spectacular descent of ESA’s Huygens on Saturn’s giant moon Titan, scientists from the probe’s Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) have released two new movies of the descent.

Cassini-Huygens - Landing on Titan – the new movies

These represent the best visual product from the mission obtained so far and the most realistic way yet to experience the landing on a far-away world. These movies were built thanks to the data collected by DISR on 14 January 2005, during the 147-minutes plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed. Cassini-Huygens - Huygens probe descent - multilingual CD-rom. Huygens CD on Titan. Huygens (CD.