Titan (moon) - Wikipedia
Discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan was the first known moon of Saturn and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Earth's moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan orbits Saturn at 20 Saturn radii or …
Titan: Facts - NASA Science
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than …
Titan - NASA Science
Titan. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan has an earthlike cycle of liquids flowing across its surface. It is the only moon with a thick atmosphere.
In Depth | Titan – NASA Solar System Exploration
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent.
Titan | Science – NASA Solar System Exploration
2024年11月20日 · The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Overview: Until the Cassini mission, little was known about Saturn’s largest moon Titan, save that it was a Mercury-sized world whose surface was veiled beneath a thick, nitrogen-rich ...
Titan | Saturn’s Largest Moon & Its Atmosphere | Britannica
2024年11月19日 · In an Earth-based telescope, Titan appears as a nearly featureless brownish red globe, its surface permanently veiled by a thick haze. It is larger than the planet Mercury and more massive than Pluto, and, in significant ways, it resembles a …
The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed - NASA
2019年11月18日 · The first map showing the global geology of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has been completed and fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains. Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface.
Titan, a moon with familiar vistas | The Planetary Society
Titan Facts. Surface temperature:-179 degrees Celsius (-290 degrees Fahrenheit) Average distance from Sun: 9.5 AU. Diameter: 5,149 kilometers (3,200 miles) Volume: 71.6 billion cubic kilometers (17.2 billion cubic miles), Earth’s moon could fit inside Titan about 3.3 times. Gravity: 1.35 m/s 2. Solar day: 382 Earth hours. Solar year: 29 Earth ...
Titan - Atmosphere, Surface, Moons | Britannica
2024年11月19日 · Titan - Atmosphere, Surface, Moons: Little was known about Titan’s surface before the Cassini-Huygens mission. Because the moon’s haze is partially transparent to near-infrared light, earlier telescopic studies exploiting this …
Titan: Exploration - Science@NASA
Voyager 1 also finally provided a measurement of Titan’s surface temperature and air pressure, as well as the moon’s radius, revealing Titan to be the second largest moon in the solar system, not the largest, which is Jupiter’s Ganymede (both moons are larger than Mercury).