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Results from the Huygens probe on Titan

Strobel, Darrell; Coustenis, Athena; Lebreton, Jean-Pierre +3 more

The Cassini-Huygens mission, comprising the NASA Saturn Orbiter and the ESA Huygens Probe, arrived at Saturn in late June 2004. The Huygens probe descended under parachute in Titan's atmosphere on 14 January 2005, 3 weeks after separation from the Orbiter. We discuss here the breakthroughs that the Huygens probe, in conjunction with the Cassini sp…

A review of Titan's atmospheric phenomena

Sotin, Christophe; Le Mouélic, Stéphane; Tokano, Tetsuya +2 more

Saturn’s satellite Titan is a particularly interesting body in our solar system. It is the only satellite with a dense atmosphere, which is primarily made of nitrogen and methane. It harbours an intricate photochemistry, that populates the atmosphere with aerosols, but that should deplete irreversibly the methane. The observation that methane is n…