Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens ...

When the probe — named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens who discovered that ... The crags frame a glowing Saturn, floating huge, rings nearly edge-on, like a giant’s ...

But still, it just seemed especially dim. Then I remembered: Saturn’s brilliant rings are disappearing—at least they are from our perspective here on Earth. The normally broad rings presently ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year and won’t be visible again until 2028. Saturn is famed for its icy rings, but an astrophysicist warns they will disappear from Earth’s view next ...

The Huygens landing was part of the Cassini mission, which launched on Oct. 15, 1997. In 2017, after 20 years of thrilling exploration, the spacecraft made its final approach to Saturn ...

SATURN'S iconic rings are set to disappear in weeks, and won't come back into full view until 2032 The vanishing act is all down to an optical illusion due to Saturn's tilt, which will turn the ...

The best time to view Saturn's rings before the disappearance would have been late last year, when they were tilted at an around 9 degree angle. That angle has now decreased to around 3.7 degrees ...