The Huygen spacecraft has landed successfully on Titan. Here is a link to the official web site. It is transmitting data and photographs.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/

Its pretty damn incredible that we can get photo's from the surface of a moon orbiting Saturn! Wow!

WOW..I've been following this so closely that I completely forgot to come here and post anything about it. I have been following this for YEARS waiting like crazy for this very moment in time! Now..all they have to do is somehow get a closer look at the methane ocean shorelines and see if there are any life forms swimming around in there. :alien:

Originally posted by Dunkirk101
WOW..I've been following this so closely that I completely forgot to come here and post anything about it. I have been following this for YEARS waiting like crazy for this very moment in time! Now..all they have to do is somehow get a closer look at the methane ocean shorelines and see if there are any life forms swimming around in there. :alien:
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You say methane, I thought methane originates from the breaking down of organic materials. Wonder what the history of this was?

Methane can be created in many ways. Jupiter and Saturn both have atmospheres that mainly consist of methane and ammonia. It is reasonable to assume that the source of the methane is the same as for the planets. This is mainly assumed to be from chemical reactions in the early solar system.

You know, to me it's sad that they sent a probe all that way with a battery that only lasted just three hours :(

You'd think that for the distance they travelled and the years spent waiting, they would have come up with something that would have lasted a lot longer than that.

It would have cost more for the probe to have been equipped to last longer. At the time they launched the probe, they didn't know whether there was a solid surface on Titan. This was a first scouting expedition, and established that there is a solid surface. Future probes will be equipped to function far longer.