What will the Huygens Probe do?
The Huygens Probe will give us our first close-up look at Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It will parachute down through Titan’s hazy atmosphere for about 2.5 hours, taking images and making copious measurements of the atmosphere and surface as it drops. If it survives the fall, Huygens will continue to operate on the surface for up to an hour, analyzing the surface material until its batteries run out of power. We hope it will reveal whether Titan has lakes or oceans of liquid hydrocarbons, and other details of the moon’s mysterious landscape.
