The Huygens Probe was ESA’s element of the joint ASI-ESA-NASA mission to Saturn. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Titan IV rocket on 15 October 1997. After a seven-year journey to Saturn, the probe descended to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon on 14 January 2005, and touched down safely on Titan's frozen surface. Huygens provided a stream of data representing a unique treasure trove of in situ measurements from the planet-sized satellite. This was humanity's first successful attempt to land a probe on another world in the outer Solar System.
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