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...spacecraft will penetrate that atmosphere with radar and a free-flying 705-lb. conical probe (the Huygens half of the Cassini-Huygens tandem), scheduled to plunge into the Titanian skies on Jan. 14, 2005. Huygens will make a 2 1/2-hr. parachute descent, transmitting data all the way. When it touches down, having made the most distant landing ever by an earthly probe, it is expected to survive for no more than half an hour. Cassini, designed to live much longer, should be beaming back data until...
...HUYGENS PROBE...
...Huygens probe will be released by Cassini on Christmas Eve 2004 and will reach Titan three weeks later. It carries a camera and five sensors, all of which must work fast. Three hours after entering Titan's airspace, the probe will run out of power...
...probe pops free of the ship and spins at seven revolutions a minute for stability...
...minutes after entry, the probe slows to 895 m.p.h., and the first of two parachutes deploys...