Titan is the only moon with a thick atmosphere. Its air is even thicker than Earth's, and mostly nitrogen, like ours.
It's the only other place we know with rain, rivers and seas on the surface. But at −179 °C, they're made of methane and ethane, not water.
In 2005 the Huygens probe parachuted down through the orange haze and landed. It's still the most distant landing humans have ever made.
NASA is sending a flying drone called Dragonfly, due to arrive in the 2030s and hop from place to place.
- Width
- 5,149 km
- Goes round Saturn
- every 16 days
- One day
- The same: it always shows Saturn one face
- Temperature
- −179 °C
- 70 kg on Earth weighs
- 10 kg here
