Cassini Project Pt. 2

January 14, 2005, 23:41
Today is a monumental day in space exploration. The Cassini-Huygens mission has reached it's climax. The Huygens Probe descended upon Saturn's moon Titan today. It successfully broke through the thick atmoshpere and onto the ground of Titan. We already have photographs and radio transmissions from Titan. Earlier this week, I wrote on the excitement the Cassini Project gave me. I am absolutely ecstatic that this mission has been succes. We are yet to know exactly what we see in these photos from another world, but they are spectacular. We hope that Titan will help us gain an understanding in the beginning of life on the Earth. Titan has a thick nitrogen and methane atmosphere, similar to the earths early atmosphere, in which life began to form. Astronomers around the world sleep easy tonight, for the mission has been a success.