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Mission to Titan - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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Have you ever wanted to explore a distant planet? In this exciting album, Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, is revealed live before our eyes for the first time. In January 2005 the Huygens probe parachuted down from its mother ship, Cassini, through Titan’s murky atmosphere to rest on its mysterious frozen landscape. Equipped with an impressive array of scientific instruments, producing an incredible series of images, scientists now have a glimpse of what Earth may have been like before life evolved. The Cassini-Huygens achievement was humankind’s first landing on a body in the Outer Solar System, and its extraordinary results will be studied in the world’s leading scientific journals for years to come.
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The Cassini-Huygens Probe
Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched.
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Transcript -- The Cassini-Huygens Probe
Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched.
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Titan: first glimpse
OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis.
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Transcript -- Titan: first glimpse
OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis.
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