NASA’s Cassini spacecraft deployed a lander called Huygens with Titan On December 25, 2004, the European spacecraft blasted off into the Saturnian planetary system with the Cassini spacecraft. Huygens was inactive during the seven-year trip, but an internal timer told her to go before she could. entering Titan’s atmosphere.
According to Space, after Huygens separated from … the Cassini spacecraft, it took three weeks to descend to the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, and landed on January 14, 2005.
The spacecraft spent two and a half hours skydiving through Titan’s atmosphere and relaying the data to Cassini, which transmitted the data back to Earth.
Huygens sent back data after it landed, and within an hour and a half before its batteries died, data and images from Huygens revealed that Titan is one of the most similar places in the solar system.
The moon has a thick atmosphere made of nitrogen and methane and is covered with lakes of liquid methane. Huygens even found organic molecules on Titan.
Scientists now believe that Titan may be the best place to search for life in the solar system.