NASA’s Cassini spacecraft deployed a lander called the Huygens with Titan On December 25, 2004, a European spacecraft moved on a voyage to the Saturn system with the Cassini spacecraft. Huygens was idle during the seven-year journey, but its internal timer told it to get going before entering Titan’s atmosphere.
According to Space, after Huygens split from… Cassini vehicleIt took three weeks to descend to the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, and it landed on January 14, 2005.
The spacecraft spent two and a half hours skydiving through Titan’s atmosphere and transmitting data to Cassini, which transmitted that data back to Earth.
Huygens sent back the data after it landed, and for another hour and a half before its batteries ran out, the data and images from Huygens revealed that Titan is one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system.
The moon has a thick atmosphere made of nitrogen and methane, and is covered in lakes of liquid methane. Huygens even found organic molecules on Titan.
Scientists now believe that Titan may be the best place to search for life in the solar system.