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A Titanic leap; After a seven-year voyage covering two billion miles, Cassini- Huygens mission reaches Saturn's moon.(Title Page)
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January 15, 2005| Author:
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Byline: Steve Connor Science Editor
IT TOOK seven years for the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft to travel the two billion miles to Saturn and its moon Titan but it was the final 12 hours that proved the most heart-stopping.
Scientists were jubilant last night as they witnessed a successful end to the most ambitious unmanned mission ever undertaken in space. In emotional scenes from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, they confirmed yesterday that a tiny probe had landed safely on the frozen surface of Titan.
It was the furthest soft landing in the history of space ...
