About Titan:
- Titan is Saturn's largest moon.
- It is the second largest moon in our solar system after Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
- It is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere.
- It's the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid, including rivers, lakes, and seas, on its surface.
- Like Earth, Titan’s atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, plus a small amount of methane.
- Titan takes 15 days and 22 hours to complete a full orbit of Saturn.
- Titan is also tidally locked in synchronous rotation with Saturn, meaning that, like Earth’s Moon, Titan always shows the same face to the planet as it orbits.
Key Facts about Cassini Spacecraft:
- It is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
- Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study Saturn and its complex system of rings and moons in unprecedented detail.
- It was launched in 1997. It was one of the largest interplanetary spacecraft.
- The mission consisted of NASA’s Cassini orbiter, which was the first space probe to orbit Saturn, and the ESA’s Huygens probe, which landed on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
