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Huygens was an atmospheric entry probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft ever to land on Titan. The probe was named after the Dutch 17th-century astronomer Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655.
The combined Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997. Huygens separated from the Cassini orbiter on December 25, 2004, and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005 near the Xanadu region. This was the first and, so far, only landing ever accomplished in the outer Solar System. It touched down on land, although the possibility that it would touch down in an ocean was also taken into account in its design. The probe was designed to gather data for a few hours in the atmosphere, and possibly a short time at the surface. It continued to send data for about 90 minutes after touchdown. It remains the most distant landing of any human-made craft.
Huygens (also Huijgens, Huigens, Huijgen/Huygen, or Huigen) is a Dutch patronymic surname, meaning "son of Hugo". Most references to "Huygens" are to the polymath Christiaan Huygens. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jan Huygen (1563–1611), Dutch voyager and historian
- Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer
- Constantijn Huygens, Jr. (1628–1697), Dutch statesman, soldier, and telescope maker, son of Constantijn Huygens
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer, son of Constantijn Huygens
- Lodewijck Huygens (1631–1699), Dutch diplomat, the third son of Constantijn Huygens
- Cornélie Huygens (1848-1902), Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist
- Léon Huygens (1876–1918), Belgian painter
- Jan Huijgen (1888-?), Dutch speedwalker
- Christiaan Huijgens (1897-1963), Dutch long-distance runner
- Wil Huygen (1922-2009), Dutch children's and fantasy writer, e.g. of Gnomes
Huygens is an impact crater on Mars named in honour of the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens.
The crater is approximately in diameter and can be found at 304.4°W 14.0°S, in the Iapygia quadrangle.
Scientists were delighted to see branched channels in pictures taken with spacecraft that were sent in orbit around Mars. The existence of these channels is strong evidence that much water once flowed on the surface of the planet. Simple organisms may have once lived where water once was. An excellent group of these channels is shown in the picture below from the rim of Huygens taken with THEMIS.
Carbonates (calcium or iron carbonates) were discovered in a crater on the rim of Huygens. The impact on the rim exposed material that had been dug up from the impact that created Huygens. These minerals represent evidence that Mars once had a thicker carbon dioxide atmosphere with abundant moisture. Carbonates of these kinds only form when there is a lot of water. They were found with the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Earlier, the instrument had detected clay minerals. The carbonates were found near the clay minerals. Both of these minerals form in wet environments. It is supposed that billions of years ago Mars was much warmer and wetter. At that time, carbonates would have formed from water and the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. Later the deposits of carbonate would have been buried. The double impact has now exposed the minerals. Earth has vast carbonate deposits in the form of limestone.
Usage examples of "huygens".
Nicolaes Huygens, my trusted, confidential , source of information about foreign science.
If Huygens had lied about his relationship with Spaen, what else had he lied about?
Nicolaes Huygens sat with Assistant Director deGraeff and their three colleagues.
But the seventeen-year-old Nicolaes Huygens had cared nothing for studies.
Yet Huygens continued his debauchery, until it culminated in the act that had bound him to Jan Spaen.
Now Huygens forgot Jan Spaen, Sano, and the past as his professional self took command.
Washing the blood from the injury, Huygens saw that it was deep and serious.
From his medical kit, Huygens took a thin needle and a long human hair.
The men wanted to know if Huygens meant to violate the Dog Protection Edict, their bizarre law that favored animal life over human.
Amsterdam, Huygens had left the lecture hall one evening with a group of colleagues, and spied, standing in the vestibule, a ghost from the past.
And Huygens realized that Spaen had at last come to collect on his debt.
Day after day, Huygens endured his jovial conversation at mealtimes, seething with bitter resentment.
For a moment Huygens felt the elation that saving a life always brought him.
If Investigator Sano learned the truth about Huygens, he would look no further for the killer of Jan Spaen.
Clumsily Huygens dropped to his knees before Sano, hands clasped in entreaty.