Titan Moon

Categories: Science | Astronomy
    • Discovered: March 25, 1655
    • Discovered by: Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens
    • Saturn's largest moon
    • Second-largest moon in the Solar System
    • Bigger than both Earth's Moon and the planet Mercury
    • Has its own atmosphere
    • Diameter: 5,150 kilometers
    • Mass: 1.35x1023 kilograms
    • Average distance from Saturn: 1.22 million kilometers
    • Completes orbit around Saturn in 15 days, 22 hoursESA: Titan Fact Sheet
    • The Cassini spacecraft launched towards Saturn in 2004
    • Cassini released the Huygens lander onto the surface of Titan on January 14, 2005
    • Cassini-Huygens mission discovered evidence of an underground ocean
  • Titan is the largest of 60 known moons that orbit the planet Saturn. It is also the only moon in the Solar System that has a planet-like atmosphere.NASA-JPL: The Story of Saturn 2004's Cassini-Huygens mission was the first to place a probe on the surface of Titan.
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