Titan
Saturn’s hazy moon
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon. A thick golden haze surrounds it and hides the ground. Titan has an atmosphere even denser than Earth’s. Beneath the clouds are mountains, sandy dunes, rivers, and lakes. Does that sound familiar? But these lakes contain very cold liquids, including methane, rather than water.
Titan is so cold that water ice can be hard like rock. The Huygens probe floated down on a parachute and sent pictures from the surface. The Cassini spacecraft helped reveal shores and seas beneath the haze. By exploring this strange moon, scientists discover how different weather and landscapes can be in space.
Help Titan get home → Explore in the planetarium →In the planetarium you can spin this world and look at it from every side.
Artist’s impression · the surface is an illustration.
Sources and images
Celestial maps: Solar System Scope / INOVE · CC BY 4.0. Thumbnails were reduced and shaded. Artistic SVG maps were created for this project.