Dec 25 2004

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NASA's Cassini orbiter successfully released ESA's Huygens probe on a controlled course to Saturn's largest moon Titan. ESA, NASA, and the Italian Space Agency had created the Cassini-Huygens mission to study Saturn and its moons, scheduling the Huygens probe ~ specifically designed to analyze Titan's atmosphere and surface ~ to enter the moon's atmosphere in January 2005. (ESA, “Huygens Begins Its Final Journey into the Unknown,” ESA news release 67-2004, 25 December 2004, http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMVR53AR2E_index.html (accessed 2 February 2010).

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