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  2. 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 l… See more

    Size and Distance

    Titan has a radius of about 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers), and is nearly 50 percent wider than Earth’s moon. Titan is about 759,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn, whi… See more

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    Orbit and Rotation

    Titan takes 15 days and 22 hours to complete a full orbit of Saturn. Titan is also tidally locked in … See more

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    Structure

    Titan’s internal structure isn’t entirely known, but one model based on data from the Cassini-Huygens mission suggests Titan has five primary layers. The innermost l… See more

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    Formation

    Scientists aren’t certain about Titan’s origin. However, its atmosphere provides a clue. Several instruments on the NASA and ESA Cassini-Huygens mission measured the isotopes nit… See more

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  1. Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have an atmosphere denser than the Earth 's and is the only known object in space—other than Earth —on which there is clear evidence that stable bodies of liquid exist.
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  4. Titan Moon Facts - Space Facts

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    Saturns largest moon Titan is an extraordinary and exceptional world. Among our solar system’s hundreds of known moons, Titan is the only one with a substantial atmosphere. And of all the places in the solar system, Titan is the …

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    Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on March 25, 1655. It was nearly 300 years later, in 1944, when Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered one of the characteristics that makes …