George William Herbert wrote:
Steve Pope wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Also, I believe that it would have been enormously difficult
to design Huygens and provide a large enough RTG to keep it
operating in the event of a landing in liquid hydrocarbons,
which was, and still is, a substantial possibility for a
Titan lander.

My understanding is Huygens was designed to survive such
a landing and continue to function while floating in
hydrocarbons.

I could be mistaken however.

I think the better phrasing would be that it was designed
with some thought that they'd like to to survive landing,
and that they were aware that it might land on land or
a liquid ocean, but that it wasn't really a huge design
priority.

They planned for the contingecy of a liquid landing. One of the UK
experiments was a densometer for analysing the liquid.

Dave