The European Space Agency's probe Huygen has successfully entered the atmosphere of the Saturn moon Titan. Roberto Lo Verda, a spokesman for the European Space Agency, said: "It has entered the atmosphere, and entered it correctly."
Mission controllers have announced that the probe has opened its parachute to slow its descent and that all systems had successfully restarted. Lo Verda said "We know the batteries are switched on, the parachute has deployed and it has slowed down.."
Huygens has been travelling to its destination for seven years aboard the international Cassini spacecraft. ESA's science director, David Southwood, said: "We didn't promise we could do this, we were pushing the limit just to do this."
