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Titan

Saturn's giant moon with lakes of liquid methane/Moons

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest moon in the solar system. It is the only moon with a dense atmosphere and the only body besides Earth known to have stable surface liquids: lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane. ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan in 2005, and NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft is planned to arrive in the 2030s.

Measurements

Diameter5.1 million m
90.3 millionHouse keys
515 billionDust particles
1.4 millionKayaks
Mass135 sextillion kg
1.6 sextillionNicolas Cages
44.8 sextillionLabrador puppies
1.3 septillionSlices of New York pizza
Surface temperature94 K
4.7 hundredthsBlast furnace cores
1.1 tenthsCampfires

About −179 °C

Surface atmospheric pressure146,700 Pa
73.3Gentle hugs
1.6 tenthsEspresso machines
1.63Football inflations

About 1.45 times Earth's sea-level pressure

Mean orbital speed5,570 m/s
534Usain Bolts
67.1Bullet trains
Mean distance from Saturn1.2 billion m
48.9 quadrillionRibosomes
81.5 millionYacht lengths
7.9 quintillionCarbon atoms
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