Huygens lands on Titan
This is the most distant landing of a spacecraft in the history of mankind as reported by the Astronomy Picture of the Day. The probe didn’t know if it would land on a liquid or solid surface but it wound up landing on a solid surface and transmitted the following picture:
I have been closely watching the Cassini (Photo Essay) spacecraft on it’s way to Saturn for years and this is a very exciting event for me, and probably for a lot of people.
Whoo hoo!