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.

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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
discoveryDate 1655-03-25
distanceFromSun_AU 9.5
DragonflyPlannedArrivalYear 2030s
DragonflyPlannedLaunchYear 2028
escapeVelocity_km_per_s 2.64
exploredBy Cassini spacecraft
linked to: Cassini–Huygens

Huygens probe
linked to: Cassini–Huygens

Voyager 1
Voyager 2
firstLandingSite Adiri-Shangri-La region
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
landingDate_Huygens 2005-01-14
largerThan planet Mercury
largestSea Kraken Mare
magnetosphericEnvironment embedded in Saturn’s magnetosphere
mass_kg 1.3452e23
massRelativeToMoon 1.8
meanRadius_km 2574.73
meanSurfaceAlbedo 0.22
memberOf Saturnian system
missionTarget Dragonfly mission
namedAfter Titans of Greek mythology
oftenDepictedAs home of alien or cosmic beings in fiction
orbitalEccentricity 0.0288
orbitalInclination_deg 0.34854
orbitalPeriod_days 15.945
orbits Saturn
potentialFor prebiotic chemistry
primarySurfaceLiquids liquid ethane
liquid methane
rankBySize_inSolarSystemMoons 2
rotationPeriod_days 15.945
rotationState tidally locked
sea Ligeia Mare
Punga Mare
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

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Eternals (Marvel Comics) inUniverseOrigin Titan (moon of Saturn)
The Titan hasSetting Saturn’s moon Titan
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)
Cassini radar altimetry targetBody Saturn’s moon Titan
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)
Dragonfly rotorcraft lander targetBody Saturn’s moon Titan
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)
Thanos’s second Snap on Titan (destroying the Stones) occursOn planet Titan
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)
Hyperion (poem) featuresCharacter Saturn (Titan)
subject linked to: Hyperion
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)
Titan (Marvel Comics) inspiredBy Titan (moon of Saturn in real astronomy)
subject linked to: Titan
linked to: Titan (moon of Saturn)