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Titan

Moons
Disc within a Hazy Halo

Saturn's largest moon and the only moon in the solar system known to have a dense atmosphere and stable bodies of surface liquid, in the form of lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane rather than water.

Facts
Object Type
Natural satellite (moon of Saturn) 1
Diameter (km)
5149 1
Mass
1.35 x 10^23 kg 2
Orbital Distance
about 1,221,870 km from Saturn 2
Discovery Year
1655 3
Classification
Catalogue
Other or Uncatalogued 1
Connections

Associated With

Source Wikipedia: Titan (moon)
Cassini, Spacecraft

Delivered the Huygens probe to Titan's surface in January 2005.

Source NASA Solar System Exploration

The Huygens probe landed on Titan in January 2005.

Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source Wikipedia: Titan (moon)Cassini-Huygens, Overview section
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source NASA Solar System Exploration: Ocean Worlds
Source NASA Solar System Exploration: Ocean Worlds
Source Wikipedia: Titan (moon)
Source NASA Solar System Exploration

Orbits

Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Sources
1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Titan Facts, Introduction section
    Titan's rivers, lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane might serve as a habitable environment on the moon's surface, though any life there would likely be very different from Earth's life.
  • Titan Facts, Size and Distance section
    Titan has a radius of about 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers), and is nearly 50 percent wider than Earth's moon.
  • Titan Facts, Namesake section, discovery sentence
    Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan on March 25, 1655.
  • Titan page, Titan heading, opening sentence
    Titan is Saturn's largest moon.
  • Titan page, Facts About Titan section, atmosphere sentence
    Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the only moon in our solar system known to have a substantial atmosphere.
  • Titan page, Exploring Titan section, Dragonfly sentence
    NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will launch to Titan in 2028, and spend three years making multiple landings to investigate prebiotic chemical processes and complex organic compounds that, on Earth, are the building blocks of life.
  • Entity description, titan catalogue classification
    Saturn's largest moon and the only moon in the solar system known to have a dense atmosphere and stable bodies of surface liquid, in the form of lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane rather than water.
  • Orbits: Saturn
  • Associated With: Cassini
  • Associated With: Enceladus, Saturn Facts, Moons section, introduction sentence (Enceladus jets and Titan lakes)
    From the jets of water that spray from Saturn's moon Enceladus to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan, the Saturn system is a rich source of scientific discovery and still holds many mysteries.
  • Associated With: Enceladus, Saturn Facts, Moons section, introduction sentence (Titan lakes and Enceladus jets)
    From the jets of water that spray from Saturn's moon Enceladus to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan, the Saturn system is a rich source of scientific discovery and still holds many mysteries.
  • Associated With: Saturn, Saturn Facts, Introduction section, Titan clause
    to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan
  • Associated With: Earth, Titan page, Facts About Titan section, surface liquids sentence
    Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids on its surface.
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2. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Titan (moon), Wikipedia - physical characteristics infobox
    approximately 1.34518 x 10^23 kg
  • Titan (moon), Wikipedia - orbital characteristics infobox
    1221870 km
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3. Encyclopedia Britannica: Space Exploration
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
Wikipedia: Titan (moon)
  • Titan (moon), Wikipedia - lead section, opening sentence
    Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the Solar System.
  • Associated With: Ganymede, Titan (moon), Wikipedia - lead section, size ranking sentence
    It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System after Jupiter's Ganymede
  • Associated With: Callisto, Titan (moon), Wikipedia - bulk characteristics section
    Titan's diameter and mass (and thus its density) are similar to those of the Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto.
  • Associated With: Cassini-Huygens Mission, Cassini-Huygens, Overview section
  • In Group: Moons of Saturn, Lead sentence
    Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the Solar System.
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NASA Solar System Exploration: Ocean Worlds
  • Associated With: Europa, Jupiter's Moon Europa section, subsurface ocean sentence
    Scientists strongly suspect that a salty, subsurface ocean lies beneath Europa's icy crust.
  • Associated With: Europa, Saturn's Moon Titan section, subsurface ocean sentence
    Titan is believed to have a salty subsurface ocean
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