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A little flying saucer not much bigger than a washing machine will separate from its mother ship early tomorrow morning on the last stage of a long journey to oblivion. If all goes to plan, the European lander Huygens will ease away from a lorry-sized Nasa orbiter called Cassini for a date with death and glory 808 million miles from home.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1379576,00.html