No spacecraft has ever landed in the outer solar system — except one: the Huygens probe, which parachuted through Titan's orange haze in 2005 and touched down more than a billion kilometres from Earth in cold that dropped below minus 170 degrees Celsius

2004 Huygens probe to Saturn's Titan: still our only outer Solar System lander

Two decades on, the European Huygens probe is still the only spacecraft ever to land in the outer solar system, after parachuting onto Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.
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