THIS incredible video reveals the alien world of Saturn's moon in glorious colour.
Nasa has recreated the moment its space probe Huygen burst through Titan's hazy atmosphere back in 2005, using real images to create an animation depicting the landing.
The mission helped us understand the mysteries of Saturn's orbiter, where temperatures can drop hundreds of degrees below zero.
The feat – which is the furthest a spacecraft has landed from the sun – was captured by a tiny camera attached to the Huygen spacecraft back in 2005.
It's not to be confused with Saturn's other moon Mimas, which looks suspiciously like the Star Wars' death star.
Now Nasa has taken the data and actual images Huygens sent 12 years ago to recreate part of its two-and-a-half hour descent.
The clip shows highlands of rugged ice as Huygens soars toward the surface.
Deep, dried-up river beds run for miles.
The probe can be seen coming to rest in the dark floodplain amid boulders of icy rocks and even catches a glimpse of its parachute's shadow.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, behind Jupiter.
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Like Jupiter, Saturn is a giant gas planet and is composed of similar gases including hydrogen, helium and methane.
Nasa's second Saturn space probe, named Cassini, would later beam back the most detailed pictures of Saturn we have ever seen.
But it also picked up anomalies that left scientists mystified.
In October, stargazers spotted a mysterious hexagon shape at the northern pole of the planet has changed from blue to gold.
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