Kevin Reilly
Humanity's first and only landing on Titan so far came on Jan. 14, 2005. The European Space Agency's Huygens probe likely didn't come to rest right away when it arrived on the surface, bouncing and skidding for about 10 seconds after landing, an analysis showed almost a decade later. ...
Think of all the different horizons humans have viewed on other worlds. The dust-filled skies of Mars. The Moon’s inky darkness. Titan’s orange haze. These are just a small subset of the worlds that humans or our robots landed on since the Space Age began. It’s a mighty tribute to...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, for example, swoops just a few million miles away from the sun's surface, gathering data about the fiery environment there. But then retreats beyond the orbit of Venus to "cool down". The European Solar Orbiter mission makes less aggressive sorties toward the star...
The Soviet Union’s Venera 13, which landed on Venus in March 1982, was the first spacecraft to record sounds on another planet. These include both the Venusian wind and the sound of the probe itself hitting the ground. Later, the European Space Agency’s Huygens lander carried a microphone...
Even my antique lightsaber seemed poorly up to the task of dissecting this titan: it was over 30 meters (100 feet) long and surely 100 tons of Terran mass if not more; on the scale of your sauropods, but so vastly different in other ways. Right away, from its tracks I could see ...
when charges were brought against several executives by the DOJ. Not too long after that, in mid-2014, then CEO of Alstom, Patrick Kron, announced plans to sell the company's power business to GE. It was believed that the sale was a result of legal pressure on the probe into Alstom'...
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The Huygens entry probe landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan; it marked the first time a spacecraft landed on a planetary surface in the outer solar system. How much do you know about Saturn? NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute 1997 Greek archaeologists announced that they had discovered an...
Penetrometers are widely used in science as well as industry. TheHuygensspace probe, which landed on Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005, was equipped with a penetrometer to measure the consistency and composition of Titan’s soil. Deep sea expeditions have also made use of penetrometers to collect da...