Two billion miles, seven years, GBP 250 million - now Titan is finally giving up its secrets

From: The Scotsman | Date: January 15, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

IT HAS travelled more than two billion miles and taken roughly seven years to get there, but yesterday brought confirmation that a European spacecraft had finally touched down on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Heralding a new age of space exploration - it has been described as "the most ambitious unmanned space mission of all time" - the Huygens probe parachuted through Titan's thick, smoggy atmosphere to reach the surface at about 11:30am.

Such was the excitement of the scientists who have worked on the project that Dr Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team which ...

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