Maybe the music in the background set me thinking, but do these images strike anyone else as breathtaking? We put a man-made object onto another heavenly body that looks surprisingly Earth-like. Granted, Titan is much colder than Earth (as can be gleaned from the mention of “water ice rocks” near the end). How cool will it be when, sometime in the next hundred years or so, man sets foot on one or more of these planets or moons in our solar system.

To further set the mood, someone from the Huygens Probe team produced a piece of cool music to go along with the descent and the applause it was awarded by the team upon learning of its success. “Listen to it here.”:http://www.sensoryoutput.com/downloads/huygens_titan_descent.mp3