12 episodes

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.

Mission to Titan - for iPad/Mac/PC The Open University

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- JUL 18, 2009
Mission to Titan

Mission to Titan

An brief introduction to this album.
- 1 min
- JUL 18, 2009
Transcript -- Mission to Titan

Transcript -- Mission to Titan

An brief introduction to this album.
- JUL 18, 2009
- video
The Cassini-Huygens Probe

The Cassini-Huygens Probe

Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched.
- 2 min
- JUL 18, 2009
Transcript -- The Cassini-Huygens Probe

Transcript -- The Cassini-Huygens Probe

Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched.
- JUL 18, 2009
- video
Titan: first glimpse

Titan: first glimpse

OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis.
- 4 min
- JUL 18, 2009
Transcript -- Titan: first glimpse

Transcript -- Titan: first glimpse

OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis.