🌙 Moon
Titan
A moon with thick air, rain, rivers and lakes.
- Size
- 5,100 km across, 40% as wide as Earth
- Goes round Saturn
- every 15.9 Earth days
- Discovered
- 1655, by Christiaan Huygens
Did you know?
- Its lakes are filled with liquid methane, not water.
- The Huygens probe landed on it in 2005, the farthest landing ever made.
Photographed or visited by
Voyager 1
The furthest human object, still calling home after 49 years.
Cassini–Huygens
Thirteen years around Saturn, and a landing on Titan.
Compare Titan with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of TitanStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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