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erent sources. After a seven-year piggyback trip from Earth on board the Saturn probe Cassini, the European-designed Huygens separated in December and fell toward Titan, entering the moons atmosphere last Friday. Slowed by parachutes, Huygens took more than two hours to float to the icy surface, where it defied expectations of a quick death and continued to transmit for hours. NO ARCHIVE NO SALES REUTERS/ESA/NASA (news - web sites)//University of Arizona

PHOTO4: Hand-out photographs released on January 21, 2005, show a mosaic of three frames taken on Saturns moon Titan by the space probe Huygens, giving unprecedented detail of the high ridge area including the flow down into a major river channel from different sources. After a seven-year piggyback trip from Earth on board the Saturn probe Cassini, the European-designed Huygens separated in December and fell toward Titan, entering the moons atmosphere last Friday. Slowed by parachutes, Huygens took more than two hours to float to the icy surface, where it defied expectations of a quick death and continued to transmit for hours. NO ARCHIVE NO SALES REUTERS/ESA/NASA (news - web sites)//University of Arizona