{"id":1390,"date":"2005-01-03T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-03T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:08:09","slug":"huygens-begins-final-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Huygens begins final journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESA PR 67-2004. The European Space Agency\u2019s Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA\u2019s Cassini orbiter early Christmas morning and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn\u2019s largest and most mysterious moon, Titan, where on 14 January it will make a descent through one of the most intriguing atmospheres in the solar system to an unknown surface.<\/p>\n<p>The separation occurred at 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET): A few minutes after separation, Cassini turned back to Earth and relayed back information about the separation. This signal then took 1 hour and 8 minutes to cross the 1.2 billion kilometres separating the Cassini spacecraft and Earth. <\/p>\n<p>Full story: <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Cassini-Huygens\/SEMVR53AR2E_0.html\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Cassini-Huygens\/SEMVR53AR2E_0.html  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA PR 67-2004. The European Space Agency\u2019s Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA\u2019s Cassini orbiter early Christmas morning and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn\u2019s largest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}