– Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695): Niederländischer Astronom, Mathematiker und Physiker, entdeckte unter anderem den Saturnmond Titan.
– Weltraumforschung: Name des Landers der NASA/ESA Raumsonde Cassini auf dem Weg zum Saturn mit Ankunft im Juli 2004.
The Cassini-Huygens Mission to the Saturnian system is a multinational cooperation between three space agencies and 17 nations. Starting in 2004, the spacecraft was explore Saturn, its mysterious rings and its many moons until 2017. The Huygens probe entered into the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, in 2005 and landed in its surface.
A NASA/ESA mission to explore the Saturnian system. The ESA component consists of the Huygens probe designed to enter the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and descend under parachute down to the surface. It landed on Titan in 2005.
