Huygens ready to go.

As a pessimist I think that the likeliest scenario is that Huygens will be separated succesfully and then nothing more is of heard of it á la Beagle 2. 21 days without contact is quite a huge number of days in a relatively unknown place like the Saturnian system.

It´s a sad thing that a Titan orbiter will be on orbit no earlier than the 2020´s. Hopefully some day in the future we could have a web of satellites around all the planets and the major moons of the solar system. After all, we have thousands of nuclear weapons ready to annihilate higher life forms from Earth and flotillas of spy satellites, so a hundred or so spacecrafts around distant planets and moons wouldn´t really be asking too much... New telescopes with adaptive optics and space telescopes are good in monitoring changes in the giant planets, but the closer the better, and specialized missions beat occasional peeks.