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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon

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The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan 's surface on Jan. 14, 2005 .

The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA 's Cassini , took approximately 2.5 hours .

It was the first and only probe to land in the outer solar system.