00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons.
00:08 The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride on NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
00:15 It parted ways with the mothership about three weeks before touching down on the icy moon's surface.
00:20 This was the first time a spacecraft had ever landed on a moon in the outer solar system.
00:25 Huygens took some amazing photos and collected plenty of data, which revealed that Titan has lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane, replenished by rain from hydrocarbon clouds.
00:35 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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