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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...
...expect fantastic chemistry on Titan," says astronomer Steven Squyres of Cornell University. "I don't expect a trace of life." Others aren't so sure; if there's lightning in the Titanian atmosphere, it could energize organic molecules in a hurry. "I would be surprised if there is life on Titan," says astronomer Toby Owen of the University of Hawaii, "but we've been surprised by the solar system before...
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