The Huygens probe detached from Cassini in December 2004 and spent 22 days coasting silently toward Titan before parachuting through an orange methane haze for two and a half hours, and when it thumped down on a plain of ice pebbles it kept transmitting for 90 more minutes from a moon nobody had ever seen the surface of

On 14 January 2005, ESA's Huygens probe parachuted through Titan's orange methane haze and kept transmitting for 90 minutes from the surface — still the most distant landing in history. The post The Huygens probe detached from Cassini in December 2004 and spent 22 days coasting silently toward Titan before parachuting through an orange methane haze for two and a half hours, and when it thumped down on a plain of ice pebbles it kept transmitting for 90 more minutes from a moon nobody had ever see