February 14, 2024 4:24 AM EST
Dr. Swapnil Surwase
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Titan is the Saturn's largest moon, it's an icy world. After Ganymede Titan is second largest moon in our solar system.
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Titan is bigger than our Earth's moon also bigger than Planet Mercury. It contains dense atmosphere.
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Titan moon has radius of 2575 Kilometers and 1.2 million kilometers away from Planet Saturn.
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It takes almost 16 days to complete one orbit around Saturn. It is tidally locked with Saturn just like our Earth's moon.
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According to Cassini-Huygens mission data Titan consist of total 5 layers, surface coated with organic molecules and rained in form of liquids.
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It's the only one candidate in our solar system who resemble Earth's water cycle. Titan atmosphere contain Nitrogen and few amount of Methane.
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Titan is also thought to have subsurface ocean of water. But on the surface it has rivers, seas and lakes of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.
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It has surface temperaure of -179 degrees celsius in this condition water that is present on Titan plays role of rock.
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In 2005 NASA's Cassini spacecraft delivered ESA's Huygens spacecraft that landed successfully on moon Titan.
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