Christiaan Huygens1997
The European Space Agency honored Huygenss discovery of Titan by naming a space probe after him, the Huygens probe, designed to drop through Titans atmosphere, is launched aboard the Cassini spacecraft in 1997
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The European Space Agency honored Huygenss discovery of Titan by naming a space probe after him, the Huygens probe, designed to drop through Titans atmosphere, is launched aboard the Cassini spacecraft in 1997
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