It looks like the Huygens lander part of the mission has been a success. The first few photos show the lander on ground not dissimilar to that encountered by the Mars Spirit probe, not in a lake, which I would have liked to have seen.

I am always amazed at space projects, with the Huygens probe traveling for seven years, to a destination one billion miles away (far enough for transmissions to take 1 hour to travel). Saturn is currently quite close to the constellation of Gemini, so if it is clear you can look toward a small gadget sitting on a moon a very long way away.

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