Veteran software makes it to Titan

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Two tiny software errors nearly a decade ago almost lost the historic pictures of Saturn's moon

This month's successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan relied on precise software programmed almost a decade ago. But tiny coding errors nearly prevented the craft from transmi...

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