20051201

ESA doubles the fun
with findings from
Titan and Mars

"The European Space Agency will unveil wide-ranging findings today from a landing on Titan, as well as from the first-ever probing below the surface of Mars, which found traces of the presence of water ice.

"The presentations include a set of new wide-ranging results from the Huygens probe's two-and-a-half hour descent and landing, part of the extraordinary NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons.

"At the same time, ESA's Mars Express mission is continuing its investigations of Mars, painting a new picture of the Red Planet. This includes the first-ever probing below the surface of Mars, new geological clues with implications for the climate, newly-discovered surface and atmospheric features and, above all, traces of the presence of water ice on this world."