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- 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
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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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Titan Moon Questions
Were the moon landings a fake? 3 AnswersThey were not fake. We landed on the moon 6 times, which I consider to be way too few. Mythbusters even did an episode confirming or busting the usually claime... read more
How many moons does Mars have? 1 AnswerOur red neighbor Mars has two moons called Phobos and Deimos. They are very small - Phobos is 22 km and Deimos is 12.6 km in diameter and they are believed to ... read more
How many moons does Venus have? 1 Answer0 as the earth is the only planet with a natural sattelite, what we call the moon read more
Will the moon be colonized? How will territorities be defined on the moon? 1 AnswerThe presence of water makes colonizing the moon a good possibility. It's proximity to Earth makes it much easier to colonize than Mars. It'll be very expensiv... read more
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Icy moon's lakes brim with hearty soup for life: Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chem.. http://bit.ly/553Fsl
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Titan, land (moon) of a 1000 (life friendly?) lakes... http://bit.ly/89XAut
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Icy moon's lakes brim with hearty soup for life: Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chemical... http://bit.ly/553Fsl
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Icy moon's lakes brim with hearty soup for life: Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chem.. http://bit.ly/553Fsl
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Titan, land (moon) of a 1000 (life friendly?) lakes... http://bit.ly/89XAut
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Icy moon's lakes brim with hearty soup for life: Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chemical... http://bit.ly/553Fsl
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