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Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System. ... It took images of Titan, including Titan and Saturn together in mid to late 1979. ...
Huygens (/ ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / HOY-gənz) was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. [3]
Titan, at 5,149 km diameter, is the second largest moon in the Solar System and Saturn's largest. [ 68 ] [ 44 ] Out of all the large moons, Titan is the only one with a dense (surface pressure of 1.5 atm ), cold atmosphere, primarily made of nitrogen with a small fraction of methane . [ 69 ]
The Cassini mission’s orbiter, which carried the Huygens probe that landed on Titan in 2005, conducted more than 100 flybys of Titan between 2004 and 2017 to reveal much of what scientists know ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into the giant ringed planet in 2017. Cassini's radar ...
Titan Original - A mosaic of nine processed images acquired during Cassini's first very close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004. The images comprising this mosaic were acquired from distances ranging from 650,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) to 300,000 kilometers (200,000 miles).
Kraken Mare / ˈ k r ɑː k ən ˈ m ɑːr eɪ / is the largest known hydrocarbon sea on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. It was discovered by the space probe Cassini in 2006, and was named in 2008 after the Kraken, a legendary sea monster. [1] It covers an area slightly bigger than the Caspian Sea on Earth, making it the largest known lake ...
Seattle photographer Jose Moreno captured the moon rising behind the Space Needle. This video, shared by Fox 13 Seattle, shows Moreno’s photo as well as others taken overnight with other iconic ...