Place Like Home: Cassini

The enormous challenge of building a probe capable of travelling over 1 billion kilometres to reach Saturn's moon, Titan.

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Huygens probe was designed by the European Space Agency at a cost of £400 million.

NASA's Cassini satellite carried Huygens 1.3 billion km, to explore Saturn's largest moon Titan.

Thick clouds surround Titan, so its surface could only be guessed at.

A penetrometer on the bottom of the Huygens probe indicated the exact nature of Titan's surface.

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