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Titan  

Definition(s)

  • Titan is he largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the Solar System, after Ganymede. Titan is bigger than the planet Mercury, although only half as massive. It is the only moon in the Solar System to have a dense atmosphere (10 times deeper than Earth's and with a surface pressure 60% greater). Until the arrival in orbit around Saturn of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, in 2004, little was known about the surface of Titan because of the obscuring effect of an orange haze in the atmosphere. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Titan.html)

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Synonym(s)

  • Saturn VI

In other languages

  • French

  • Saturne VI

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-NMZSVDGH-1

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