ESA finally solves its Huygens probe's Titan landing mystery

The European Space Agency has finally discovered what went wrong during the descent of the Huygens probe it sent to Saturn’s moon Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission launched in 1997. Both the Cassini and the Huygens missions were successful, but the latter didn’t perform without issue: the ESA says its probe started spinning the wrong direction during descent, …