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  • Wonderful Titan

    Wonderful Titan

    Titan Wonderful Scenes

    Titan is the wonderful moon of Saturn that could be a planet by its own right. NASA – ESA Cassini probe and Huygens lander have captured amazing images of the satellite that has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s.

    NASA – esa released the next video of Saturn’s moon composed of images from Cassini on approach to Saturn’s moon and Huygens descent to the surface. Huygens made the amazing landing January 2005.

    JPL – Titan Scenes

    The mission directed by NASA – esa [Italian Space Agency] has gathered a massive amount of data about wonderful Titan, the following graphic highlights some of the mission achievements.

    Highlighted Facts, NASA/JPL-Caltech

    Source: NASA – ESA – JPL

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  • Landing Rosetta’s Philae More Challenging Than Thought

    Landing Rosetta’s Philae More Challenging Than Thought

    Rosetta’s Philae Landing Module

    European Space Agency – Jet Propulsion Laboratory joined mission to land Rosetta’s landing module Philae on comet 67P will prove to be a more challenging task than previously thought. The undertaking will be more complex than landing on a planet or even on an asteroid. The tentative date for the landing of Rosetta’s Philae is this November 12, 2014.

    Video Landing Rosetta’s Philae How-to – NASA/ESA

    Ambition -Science Fiction Film- ESA/Platige Image

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