TITAN – Largest Moon Of Saturn | Moons Of Saturn
TITAN – We are now going to know and learn about the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the Solar System, Titan.
It is, as mentioned above, the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the Solar System.
It is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Its size is only exceeded by the largest moon in Jupiter, Ganymede, by just 2 per cent.
NASA says that this is the only moon in the Solar System with a dense atmosphere, and by far the only world besides Earth which has standing bodies of liquid on its surface, which includes rivers, lakes and seas. It is also the sole world that has earthlike cycle of liquids.
The moon’s atmosphere is mainly nitrogen with a small amount of methane.
Titan has a radius of about 1,600 miles or 2,575 kilometers and is 50% wider than that of the Earth’s . The moon is about 759,000 miles or 1.2 million kilometers from Saturn and is 886 million miles or 1.4 billion kilometers away from the sun.
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