QUESTION: What happens to the probe after it lands? Will it get crushed before landing like Galileo's? ANSWER from FAQ on June 3, 1999: It won't get crushed because Titan's atmospheric pressure isn't immense like Jupiter's. The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 1.6 times that of Earth's. The Huygens probe may survive landing on solid ground, ice or even liquid. It floats. One instrument on board will tell us if Huygens is bobbing in liquid, and other instruments onboard would tell us what that liquid is made of. After the probe runs out of battery power, it conceivably could sit wherever it landed for millennia. It could be caught in a landslide or an avalanche (if such phenomena occur on Titan!). Huygens could wash up on some frigid Titanic beach. Maybe it will have landed on a methane iceberg and will float endlessly on a methane/ethane sea. Wherever it lands, it would presumably be rained on by organic compounds falling from Titan's sky; like a car parked outdoors in Los Angeles for too long, Huygens eventually would be coated with the residue of this light brown, smog-like goo. Maybe in a century or so, someone will go to Titan to find out whatever became of the Huygens probe.