Titan (moon of Saturn)
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Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, a frigid, haze-shrouded world with a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere and hydrocarbon lakes, often used in fiction as the home or origin of powerful cosmic beings.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Titan | 0 |
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
icy moon
ⓘ
moon of Saturn ⓘ natural satellite ⓘ planetary-mass moon ⓘ |
| atmosphereComposition |
hydrogen
ⓘ
methane ⓘ nitrogen ⓘ |
| atmosphericPressure_surface_bar | 1.45 ⓘ |
| atmosphericPressure_surface_kPa | 146.7 ⓘ |
| axialTilt_deg | 0.3 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | outer Solar System ⓘ |
| culturalRole | frequent setting in science fiction ⓘ |
| density_g_per_cm3 | 1.88 ⓘ |
| diameter_km | 5150 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Christiaan Huygens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1655-03-25 ⓘ |
| distanceFromSun_AU | 9.5 ⓘ |
| DragonflyPlannedArrivalYear | 2030s ⓘ |
| DragonflyPlannedLaunchYear | 2028 ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity_km_per_s | 2.64 ⓘ |
| exploredBy |
Cassini spacecraft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huygens probe NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyager 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyager 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLandingSite | Adiri-Shangri-La region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
dune fields
ⓘ
hydrocarbon lakes ⓘ hydrocarbon seas ⓘ impact craters ⓘ orange hydrocarbon haze ⓘ possible cryovolcanoes ⓘ river channels ⓘ thick atmosphere ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalChanges | yes ⓘ |
| interiorLayer |
high-pressure ice mantle
ⓘ
rocky core ⓘ subsurface liquid water ocean ⓘ |
| lake | Ontario Lacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate_Huygens | 2005-01-14 ⓘ |
| largerThan | planet Mercury ⓘ |
| largestSea | Kraken Mare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| magnetosphericEnvironment | embedded in Saturn’s magnetosphere ⓘ |
| mass_kg | 1.3452e23 ⓘ |
| massRelativeToMoon | 1.8 ⓘ |
| meanRadius_km | 2574.73 ⓘ |
| meanSurfaceAlbedo | 0.22 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Saturnian system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionTarget | Dragonfly mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Titans of Greek mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs | home of alien or cosmic beings in fiction ⓘ |
| orbitalEccentricity | 0.0288 ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination_deg | 0.34854 ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod_days | 15.945 ⓘ |
| orbits | Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| potentialFor | prebiotic chemistry ⓘ |
| primarySurfaceLiquids |
liquid ethane
GENERATED
ⓘ
liquid methane GENERATED ⓘ |
| rankBySize_inSolarSystemMoons | 2 ⓘ |
| rotationPeriod_days | 15.945 ⓘ |
| rotationState | tidally locked ⓘ |
| sea |
Ligeia Mare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Punga Mare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonalDriver | Saturn’s orbital motion and axial tilt ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis_km | 1221870 ⓘ |
| spectralType | orange-brown in visible light ⓘ |
| surfaceComposition |
organic solids
ⓘ
water ice ⓘ |
| surfaceGravity_m_per_s2 | 1.352 ⓘ |
| surfaceTemperature_C | -179 ⓘ |
| surfaceTemperature_K | 93.7 ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.