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→Observation and Exploration: Added new section about Titan's apperances in fiction
Huygens was designed to land, and to study the atmosphere and the surface in detail on the way down. Huygens landed fully functional on Titan on January 14, 2005. It remained functional for three hours while it sent back many images and much data on the composition, including the carbon-isotopic ratio, of the Titanian atmosphere.
Huygens was designed to land, and to study the atmosphere and the surface in detail on the way down. Huygens landed fully functional on Titan on January 14, 2005. It remained functional for three hours while it sent back many images and much data on the composition, including the carbon-isotopic ratio, of the Titanian atmosphere.
== In fiction ==
Titan was a frequent staple of [[science fiction]] in the 1950's and 1960's. Specifically:
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]] conceived of Titan as an ideal location for a cold-regions field-testing laboratory for emergency survival equipment.
*[[Larry Niven]] envisioned Titan as an exclusive and expensive resort destination. He conceived of a resort built on Titan's Saturnine face, where guests could gaze at Saturn and its rings. He wrote this concept, of course, ''before'' [[Voyager 1]] made its flyby and was unable to photograph the surface of Titan through the haze. Moreover, Titan's orbit is only slightly inclined with respect to the ring plane, so that even had the atmosphere been clear, the view might not have been as spectacular as Mr. Niven might have imagined.
== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==