Cassini-Huygens is a robotic spacecraft created jointly by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, currently exploring the planet Saturn, rings and moons.
The device consists of two main elements: the Cassini orbiter station itself and the Huygens probe intended for landing on Titan. Cassini-Huygens was launched on October 15, 1997 and reached the Saturn system on July 1, 2004.
On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the main apparatus. The probe reached Titan on January 14, 2005 and performed a successful descent into the satellite's atmosphere. At the same time, Cassini station became the first artificial satellite of Saturn.
UFO Diaries blog author Scott Waring says:
“I was looking through pictures of Saturn when I came across one interesting one. It captured the landing site of the Cassini-Huygens apparatus. I knew that any landing site would be essential for NASA. The probe must be sent to a place from which it can then take off again.
There were two blackouts in the photo of the place. In these I found two structures, each with a lot of right angles. The structure in the photo looks like 3-4 stories high, and I say this because it is in the depth. The shadows reveal three layers, one above the other."
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“NASA and ESA worked together on the Cassini landing project on Titan… So the European Space Agency is also aware of the buildings. It makes you wonder how many countries know about the existence of aliens,”writes Waring.
Lakes on Titan
Radar images obtained on July 21, 2006 revealed "reservoirs" filled with liquid hydrocarbons (methane or ethane) located in the northern hemisphere of Titan. This is the first time that currently existing lakes outside the Earth have been discovered. The sizes of the lakes vary from one kilometer to hundreds of kilometers.
On March 13, 2007, the mission's leadership announced the discovery of a large cluster of "seas" in the northern hemisphere of Titan. One of the reservoirs is slightly larger than the earth's Caspian Sea.
Life on Titan
Cassini-Huygens discovered several chemical anomalies on Titan's surface.
Under the influence of sunlight, hydrogen and acetylene are constantly formed in the atmosphere, which should have been observed, including on the surface of Titan. However, no traces of acetylene were found on the surface, and the amount of hydrogen close to the surface decreases, which some experts (Chris McKay, NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California; Heather Smith, International Space University in Strasbourg, France) interpret as indirect signs of the presence of life …
According to their assumptions, there may be life forms on Titan, different from the terrestrial ones, based on methane (instead of water), breathing hydrogen and feeding on acetylene. The assumptions were made back in 2005.
However, less optimistic specialists (Mark Allen, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California) tend to consider the biological reasons for the loss of hydrogen and acetylene in the last place, first of all they will look for all possible non-biological explanations for this phenomenon.
Chris McKay himself also admits that the research results reveal "a very unusual and currently unexplained chemistry … Perhaps not signs of life, but very interesting."