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Est\u00e1 a punto de iniciarse uno de los cap\u00edtulos m\u00e1s apasionantes de la historia de la exploraci\u00f3n espacial. Tras un viaje de 3.000 millones de km que ha durado m\u00e1s de siente a\u00f1os, la sonda Huygens de la ESA est\u00e1 a punto de llegar a Tit\u00e1n, el sat\u00e9lite m\u00e1s grande de Saturno.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

El d\u00eda de Navidad, la Huygens se separar\u00e1 lentamente de la nave nodriza Cassini. La peque\u00f1a nave espacial con forma de platillo saldr\u00e1 disparada como una flecha, girando sobre s\u00ed misma 7 veces por minuto, en direcci\u00f3n a la luna cubierta de brumas.<\/p>\n

Tras un reposo de 20 d\u00edas, recibir\u00e1 una instrucci\u00f3n de activaci\u00f3n generada por un reloj a bordo. El 14 de enero, la sonda se lanzar\u00e1 con fuerza contra la atm\u00f3sfera superior de Tit\u00e1n, a una velocidad de unos 6 km por segundo, 10 veces la del Concorde.<\/p>\n

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Huygens entra en la atm\u00f3sfera de Tit\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cuando el escudo t\u00e9rmico de la nave alcance una temperatura de 8.000 \u00b0C, su cubierta exterior resplandecer\u00e1 con un color naranja rojizo. Sin embargo, en menos de dos minutos habr\u00e1 concluido la peor parte del descenso.<\/p>\n

Tras reducir la velocidad a 1.400 km\/h, el escudo t\u00e9rmico calcinado se desprender\u00e1 y permitir\u00e1 la apertura de los paraca\u00eddas. En ese momento, las c\u00e1maras y otros instrumentos de la sonda Huygens empezar\u00e1n a tomar muestras del aire e im\u00e1genes de la superficie del sat\u00e9lite.<\/p>\n

Dos horas despu\u00e9s, el intr\u00e9pido explorador europeo har\u00e1 contacto con la desconocida superficie de Tit\u00e1n.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most exciting chapters in the history of space exploration is about to begin. After a 3 billion km trek that lasted more than seven years, ESA\u2019s Huygens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2004\/10\/huygens_probe_descending_through_titan_s_atmosphere4\/18244995-2-eng-GB\/Huygens_probe_descending_through_Titan_s_atmosphere.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Huygens probe descending through Titan's atmosphere","esa_banner_credit":"ESA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2004\/10\/Huygens_probe_descending_through_Titan_s_atmosphere4","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-our-universe","category-planets-and-moons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}