Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only natural - TopicsExpress



          

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. Mean radius 2,576±2 km (0.404 Earths) Surface area 8.3×107 km2 Volume 7.16×1010 km3 (0.066 Earths) (3.3 Moons) Mass 1.3452±0.0002×1023 kg (0.0225 Earths)[2] (1.829 Moons) Mean density 1.8798±0.0044 g/cm3[2] Equatorial surface gravity 1.352 m/s2 (0.14 g) (0.85 Moons) Escape velocity 2.639 km/s (1.11 Moons) Rotation period Synchronous Axial tilt Zero Albedo 0.22[3] Temperature 93.7 K (−179.5 °C)[4] Apparent magnitude 8.2[5] to 9.0
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 03:25:07 +0000

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