Titanic space project sends a flying saucer to Saturn's moon Scientists begin nervous wait for news from Huygens

The Sunday Herald | December 26, 2004| | Copyright

IN the early hours of Christmas morning, a pioneering space vessel, shaped like a flying saucer, broke away from its Nasa mothership and plunged towards Titan, one of Saturn's moons, in a quest to unravel one of the solar system's greatest mysteries.

Scientists working on the European Space Agency (ESA) programme hope the robot lab, Huygens, will shed light on Titan's mysterious surface.

Because of the thick smog covering it, they don't know if their craft will land on frozen oceans, on ice hills or in a slushy methane geyser.

Jean-Pierre Lebreton, the manager of the Huygens project, said: ...

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