HUYGENS’ DESCENT TO TITAN
• Time: 14 January 2005 10:13 UTC
Activity: Huygens reached the top of Titan’s atmosphere.
• ime: 10:17 UTC Activity: The pilot parachute deployed; a minute later the front shield was released and transmission to Cassini began.
• Time: 10:32 UTC
Activity: The main parachute separated and the drogue parachute was deployed to guide Huygens to the right spot.
• Time: 11:57 UTC
Activity: Huygens made a successful touchdown on Titan.
• Time: 14:44 UTC
Activity: Cassini stopped collecting Huygens data, thus concluding its work. At 15:14 UTC the first data was sent to Earth.
All times above are the Earth-received time – around 67 minutes after the event happened at the spacecraft