The Huygens probe to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, landed last Friday, after a journey of seven years. It yielded four hours of video and a handful of not-particularly scintillating scientific measurements during its descent to Titan's inhospitable surface, and then disintegrated. Below is a typically-bombastic video by NASA about the probe's incredible scientific value. For the more skeptical, take a look at a humorous commentary. Meanwhile, the US and Europe are both having difficulty finding a few billion dollars to meet their 1990 commitments to devote .7% (!) of their annual GDPs to development aid.
What We Got For Our $3.3 Billion - According to Nasa and the ESA (1/05) 
