360What happened in 2005?
4 moments from 2005 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 14 January 2005
The Huygens probe lands on Titan
On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe parachuted onto Titan, Saturn's largest moon. It sent back pictures of river channels and pebbles of ice. It remains the most distant landing ever made by a spacecraft, about 1.2 billion km from Earth.
- On this day · 23 April 2005
The first video is posted on YouTube
On 23 April 2005, the YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the site's first video, 'Me at the zoo', 19 seconds long, filmed in front of elephants in San Diego. YouTube grew into the world's biggest video platform, where more than 500 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
- On this day · 27 April 2005
The Airbus A380 makes its first flight
On 27 April 2005, the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its first flight from Toulouse in France. With two full decks, it can carry more than 800 passengers, though most airlines fit about 500 seats. It entered service with Singapore Airlines in 2007.
- 2005 · from The 2000s: the human genome and the smartphone
King Abdullah's reign begins; Saudi Arabia joins WTO