{"id":7709,"date":"2005-01-14T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/14\/touchdown.html"},"modified":"2005-01-14T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T17:08:00","slug":"touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/touchdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/huygens_descent_comm_050114.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huygens probe has safely landed on Titan<\/a>, and is beaming back data to the Cassini orbiter for transmission to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Most excellent.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersnook.com\/blog\/hopeisfled\/002988.html#002988\" target=\"_blank\">Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huygens probe has safely landed on Titan, and is beaming back data to the Cassini orbiter for transmission to Earth. Most excellent. 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