[Saturday, January 01, 2005] This image of Iapetus was taken on Dec. 31, 2004 at a range of about 71,978 kilometers (44,725 miles) from the icy moon.

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[Monday, January 03, 2005] Cassini successfully flew by Saturn's moon Iapetus at a distance of 123,400 kilometers on Friday, Dec. 31.  NASA's Deep Space Network tracking station in Goldstone, Calif., received the signal and science data that day beginning at 11:47 p.m. PST

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[Tuesday, January 04, 2005] University of Arizona scientists, working on one of the most stunning robotic space missions ever attempted, head for Germany next week.

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[Wednesday, January 05, 2005] This Cassini image captured Saturn's moon Pan (25 kilometers, or 16 miles, across) just after the little moon emerged from Saturn's shadow. Pan orbits within the narrow Encke Gap (300 kilometers, or 186 miles, wide).

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[Wednesday, January 05, 2005] Rhea has been heavily bombarded by impacts during its history. In this Cassini image the moon displays what may be a relatively fresh, bright, rayed crater near Rhea's eastern limb. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.

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[Wednesday, January 05, 2005] From beneath the ring plane, the small, irregularly shaped moon Janus (181 kilometers, or 112 miles, across) can be seen following the orbital path it shares with slightly smaller Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles, across).

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[Friday, January 07, 2005] Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific discussions about their origin.

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[Friday, January 07, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Monday, January 5. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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[Sunday, January 09, 2005] Huygens will be the furthest object to touchdown on an alien world. The mission will provide information that may help us better understand Saturn's biggest moon, the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere.

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[Sunday, January 09, 2005] The Huygens DCR at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, was calm yesterday as engineers count the minutes to the probe's entry into Titan's atmosphere, due 14 January 2005. Huygens is coasting in dormant mode after its release from Cassini last month.

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[Tuesday, January 11, 2005] Imagine listening to a violent storm - the whoosh of the wind, the crack of thunder.  Now imagine listening to one a billion miles away in the dense atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan!

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[Tuesday, January 11, 2005] This color composite image of Saturn's moon Iapetus from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer was obtained on Dec. 31, 2004, an hour and a half before the New Year, at a distance of 121,000 kilometers (75,186 miles).

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[Tuesday, January 11, 2005] Impact-battered Rhea exhibits a mottled appearance in this Cassini image. On an ancient surface such as this, large impact basins are often peppered with many smaller craters. The image shows principally the trailing hemisphere of this icy moon.

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[Tuesday, January 11, 2005] This map illustrates the planned imaging coverage for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, onboard the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during the probe's descent toward Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005.

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[Thursday, January 13, 2005]

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[Friday, January 14, 2005] The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, USA, a part of the global network of radio telescopes involved in tracking the Huygens Titan probe, has detected the probe's 'carrier' (tone) signal.

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[Friday, January 14, 2005] Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA's Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and safely landed on its surface.

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[Friday, January 14, 2005] NASA's Cassini has begun to relay data received from the ESA Huygens lander as it descended through Titan's atmosphere. They will be posted here as they become available.

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] This image was returned by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the colored view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, and gives a better indication of the actual color of the surface.

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens.

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] Scientists have revealed the their initial findings based on analysis of the Huygens data. As well as images of Titan, sounds have also been recorded in the atmosphere

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005]

Audio data collected during Huygens' descent is now online. You can listen to it at:
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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] The Huygens probe impacted Titan's atmosphere at 09:06 GMT Friday morning, with an expected landing on Titan's mysterious surface three hours later. This near-infrared image shows Titan at the moment Huygens reached its target.

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today offered congratulations to the European Space Agency (ESA) on the successful touchdown of its Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.

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[Sunday, January 16, 2005] While ESA slowly releases images from Huygens, full collections of Huygens imagery have already been processed and refined well beyond anything ESA has done - and you can download them yourself.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8 kilometres when the probe was descending towards its landing site.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This oblique view of Saturn's moon Iapetus from high latitude shows how the dark, heavily cratered terrain of Cassini Regio transitions to a bright, icy terrain at high latitudes.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This near-true color view from Cassini reveals the colorful and intriguing surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus in unrivaled clarity.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] A spectacular landslide within the low-brightness region of Iapetus's surface known as Cassini Regio is visible in this image from Cassini.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] A spectacular landslide within the low-brightness region of Iapetus's surface known as Cassini Regio is visible in this image from Cassini.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This Cassini image shows predominantly the impact-scarred leading hemisphere of Saturn's icy moon Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles across).

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This movie, showing six of Saturn's small ring-region moons as they raced around the planet, was made from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 15, 2004.

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[Tuesday, January 18, 2005] One week after the successful completion of Huygens' mission to the atmosphere and surface of Titan, ESA is bringing together some of the probe's scientists to present and discuss the first results obtained from the data collected by the instruments.

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[Tuesday, January 18, 2005] Although Huygens landed on Titan's surface on 14 January, activity at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, continues at a furious pace. Scientists are still working to refine the exact location of the probe's landing site, seen above.

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[Friday, January 21, 2005] This image was taken on January 18, 2005 and received on Earth January 19, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Mimas, and the image was taken using the P0 and MT2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

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[Friday, January 21, 2005] The first scientific assessments of Huygens' data were presented during a press conference at ESA head office in Paris on 21 January.

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[Friday, January 21, 2005] "It's the calm before the much hoped for storm. There is no activity on the spacecraft at this time. Subsystems are normal. All sequences are clocking out for Probe Relay."

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[Saturday, January 22, 2005] New results from the Cassini mission indicate the spacecraft was pelted with sporadic bursts of interplanetary dust as it approached Saturn last year, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder space scientist.

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[Saturday, January 22, 2005] One week after its successful landing on the surface of Titan scientists have given more details on the observations made by the probe.

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[Tuesday, January 25, 2005] This image was taken on January 23, 2005 and received on Earth January 24, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Saturn, and the image was taken using the MT2 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

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[Wednesday, January 26, 2005] Thsi image was taken on January 18, 2005 and received on Earth January 19, 2005. The camera was pointing toward MIMAS, and the image was taken using the CL1 and GRN filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

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[Wednesday, January 26, 2005] This image was taken on January 22, 2005 and received on Earth January 23, 2005. The camera was pointing toward Pandora, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

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[Thursday, January 27, 2005] The landing of the Huygens probe on Titan made it onto the front page of nearly every newspaper in Europe and drew record numbers of visitors to the ESA Portal - 919 000 external visitors, and 6.8 million page views, on 15 January alone.

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[Friday, January 28, 2005] The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired today from the Goldstone tracking station. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.

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