15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

Negative torque didn't bring the plucky spacecraft down, thankfully

The European Space Agency's Huygens probe, the farthest lander to ever make it in the outer solar system, spun wildly in the opposite direction as expected as it descended onto one of Saturn's moons. Now, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong, 15 years after the probe's landing."