A Portrait of Saturn from Titan
This artistic
portrait of Saturn depicts how
it might look from Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
In the foreground sits ESA's
Huygens
probe, which will be released by NASA's
Cassini
spacecraft and parachute to Titan's surface.
Cassini will
reach Saturn in 2004 and release the
Huygens probe later that year.
Titan is one of only two moons in the
Solar System to have an atmosphere.
It has been suggested Titan might have gasoline-like lakes
and an atmospheric
chemistry
like that found on early Earth.
The Cassini spacecraft was
launched in October 1997
and has now traveled beyond Jupiter.