Jan. 14, 2026
Huygens' Titan touchdown and historic landings across the solar system.
Huygens' Titan touchdown and historic landings across the solar system.
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Calarogu Shark Media Hia Mark Ellison. In today's theme is
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Hygen's Titan touchdown and historic landings across the Solar System?
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Question one? What is the name of the parachute equipped
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European Space Agency probe that on January fourteenth, two thousand
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and five, descended through Titan's thick haze and became the
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first spacecraft to land in the outer Solar System. Question two.
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As Huygens fell toward Titan, it analyzed the air around it.
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Which gas is the primary component of Titan's atmosphere? Question three?
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Braving crushing pressure and extreme heat, which Soviet mission achieved
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the first successful soft landing on the surface of Venus
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in nineteen seventy transmitting data back to Earth for several minutes.
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Question four? Which NASA mission carried astronauts Neil Armstrong and
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Buzz Aldrin to the first crude landing on the Moon
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on July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine. Question five, which mission
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delivered the first long lived, high quality images and science
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from the Martian surface after a successful soft landing in
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christ Plenesia in nineteen seventy six. We'll be right back
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with these answers after this break welcome back. Question one
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what probe landed on Titan in two thousand and five?
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Answer Huygens. Heygens was released by NASA's Cassini orbiter and
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parachuted for about two point five hours before touching down
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on Titan, sending images and data from its frigid, hydrocarbon
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rich surface. Question two, which gas dominates Titan's atmosphe Answer nitrogen.
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Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, with methane as the most
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notable minor constituent. The dense cold air and active hydrocarbon
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chemistry drive Titan's rain, rivers and haze. Question three first
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soft landing on Venus nineteen seventy answer Venera seven. Venerus
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seven touched down in temperatures near four hundred and seventy
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five degrees celsius and pressures roughly ninety times Earth's relaying
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a weak but historic signal for about twenty three minutes.
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An engineering triumph in a hellish environment. Question four, first
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crude moonlanding mission answer Apollo eleven. Apollo eleven's lunar module
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Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquility Armstrong and Aldron
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performed the first moonwalk while Michael Collins orbited in the
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command module. Question five first long duration Mars Lander nineteen
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seventy six answer Viking one. NASA's Viking one lander studied
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Martian soil, weather and imagery for years, setting a benchmark
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for robust planetary surface missions after the early, short lived
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Mars three landing. That concludes today's five daily Trivia questions.
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I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the
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help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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