Oct 26 2004
From The Space Library
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft completed the closest approach ever made to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, as well as the only moon in the solar system known to have an atmosphere. Soon after Cassini pierced Titan's viscous atmosphere, the spacecraft beamed images of the moon's surface to mission scientists at NASA's JPL. ESA, the Italian Space Agency, and NASA had launched the mission in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons. Even though it is too cold to support life, scientists remain greatly interested in Titan, because they suspect that conditions on the planet are similar to those on Earth before the development of life. (ESA, “Cassini-Huygens Makes First Close Approach to Titan,” ESAnews release, 26 October 2004.
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