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August 4, 2012
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Mars isn’t the only place we’ve landed out there!
August 19, 2012
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The surface of Titan, a satellite of Saturn
Space Cadet JimmieJoe is taking me to task right now. This is a big thing, and I missed it!
On January 14, 2005, NASA and ESA landed a probe on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn!
I don’t recall being aware of this, at all. I don’t even know if I’ve seen this picture before, but if I have, I’m fairly certain I would think it was of Mars. Instead, this is the surface of a satellite orbiting a planet 794 million miles away from us (at it’s closest approach).
I’m thinking, right now, of all the hoopla surrounding the recent landing of the Curiosity on Mars, and marveling that there was not something similar back in 2005. Yes, the Huygens probe, part of the Cassini mission, only parachuted to the “ground”, and Curiosity did the whole ‘heat shield – parachute – retro rocket – sky crane’ deal, but still…
I missed it! (hanging head in shame, avoiding the glare of 12 year old Space Cadet JimmieJoe)
Mars, and Titan. But did you know, they’re not the only two places we’ve set down on.
We’ve landed on another planet, too.
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