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 TypeNatural satellite (moon of Saturn) 1 Diameter (km) Orbital Distanceabout 1,221,870 km from Saturn 2 Discovery Year Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Titan (moon)
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
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1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationTitan 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.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationTitan (moon), Wikipedia - physical characteristics infobox
approximately 1.34518 x 10^23 kg
Titan (moon), Wikipedia - orbital characteristics infobox
1221870 km
View the Source 3. Encyclopedia Britannica: Space Exploration
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.
View the SourceNASA 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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