Titan
Saturn's largest moon, with a thick atmosphere and surface lakes.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the Solar System. It is the only moon with a dense atmosphere and, besides Earth, the only known body with stable surface liquids. It is larger than Mercury but only 40% as massive.
Christiaan Huygens discovered it in 1655. It is made of ice and rock, with a subsurface layer of ammonia-rich water.
Quick Facts
- Adjectives
- Titanian or Titanean (both t, aɪ, ˈ, t, eɪ, n, i, ə, n)
- Named after
- Τῑτάν Tītan
- Discoverer
- Christiaan Huygens
- Discovered
- March 25, 1655
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Moment of inertia factor
- 0.3414, 0.0005 (estimate)
- Rotation
- Synchronous
- Albedo
- 0.22 (geometric), 0.265, 0.03 (Bond)
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