In fact, Huygens began to emerge from the haze only at 30 kilometres above the surface. When the probe landed, it was not with a thud, or a splash, but a ‘splat’. It landed in Titanian ‘mud’.

On the way to its final destination, Titan, ESA’s Huygens atmospheric probe underwent an important health check-up yesterday. The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered orbit around … ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.