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14 January 2005: The Huygens probe lands on Titan

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On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe parachuted onto Titan, Saturn's largest moon. It sent back pictures of river channels and pebbles of ice. It remains the most distant landing ever made by a spacecraft, about 1.2 billion km from Earth.