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= What is Titan? =  Titan is a fascinating moon that happens to be the only moon in our Solar System, with an earth-like atmosphere. Many scientists believe that Titan could be very similar to an early Earth. With such a dense atmosphere, it is impossible to observe Titan's landscape and terrain, without actually being on the surface. Titan was discovered in 1655 (before many planets) and is also, Saturn's largest moon.

=How Big is Titan? =



Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System. With a 2575 km Radius, Titan is close second to Jupiter's moon Ganymede with a 2634 km Radius.

=Is Life on Titan? = With Titan being such an earth-like moon, you would have to think there would be life on it, however it is not the life you would expect. When most people think of life on other planets they imagine Human-size Aliens which are evil and are extremely wrinkly! However, on Titan you would not find this type of ET's! If you were to find life on Titan you would find tiny (even microscopic) creatures, possibly living in the liquid seas. The biggest size you would is a very small insect like creature. If we were to find these creatures it would help solve the puzzle of Titan.

= Have There Been Any Missions To Titan? =

Titan is the only moon (apart from ours) to have a man made object on it. This object is Cassini-Huygens. Cassini-Huygens reached Titan on the 1st of July, 2004. Since then, Cassini-Huygens has made some fascinating discoveries about Titan. Once Cassini-Huygens landed on Titan, it almost immediately took a photo of it's surroundings. The photo was strangely similar a rocky riverbed that we see on Earth. This provided Astronomers with some useful information about the moon. Scientists are planning future missions to Titan already. One of these missions is called the Titan Saturn System Mission. The Titan Saturn System Mission will include an orbiter, dropping a Hot Air Balloon like space craft into the sky of Titan and the TiME. The Hot Air Balloon will be floating at around 10 km above the ground of Titan. The TiME (Titan Mare Explorer) will land on the seas of Titan and hopefully, find traces of life and bacteria. The Titan Saturn System Mission will reach Titan in the 2020's and the mission will last 3 to 6 months. Hopefully the video on the right will explain this more to you and the video on the left is Cassini-Huygens landing on Titan. media type="youtube" key="BTCShUV9C1s" height="272" width="343" align="left" media type="youtube" key="pOGVRrfIWP0" height="225" width="382" align="right"



=Statistics about Titan =

Discovered by **Discovered By: Christiaan Huygens **** Year Discovered: 1655 **** Diameter: 3,200.6 miles (5,151 km) ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Mean Distance From Saturn: 759,067 miles (1,221,850 km) ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Rotational Period: 5.9 days ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Orbital Period: 15.9 days ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Orbital Eccentricity: 0.0292 ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Orbital Inclination: 0.33 degrees ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Mean Surface Temperature: -289° F (-178° C) ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Main Atmospheric Component: Nitrogen ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Atmospheric Pressure: 1.5 bars ****<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Apparent Magnitude: 8.28 ** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> ||



=<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 320%; text-align: center;">Bibliography = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Here are some useful resources that I used to find information on Titan. If you are interested in learning more about Titan, feel free to use them. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 195%; text-align: center;">Wikipedia <span style="display: inline; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">Planetary <span style="display: inline; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">NASA <span style="display: inline; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Youtube

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