The Huygens probe had an acoustic sensor, basically a microphone, to try to detect thunder if you actually had lightning. The acoustic sensor would sample two-second intervals in certain ...

Although the probe has gone its science lives on ... it will continue its re-writing of the textbooks." The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

The spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a remarkable image of rounded pebbles that had been smoothed by the action of flowing liquid methane.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Professor John Zarnecki, PI of the Surface Science Package (SSP) instrument on the Huygens probe. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...