moon · the Solar System
Titan
Saturn's largest moon, wrapped in thick orange nitrogen haze over lakes of liquid methane.
- Type
- Moon
- Orbits
- Saturn
- Distance
- in the Solar System
- Diameter
- about 5,149 km
- Rotation
- Tidally locked: one side always faces Saturn
About Titan
- Titan's atmosphere is thicker than Earth's, with about 1.5 times the surface pressure.
- ESA's Huygens probe landed on it in 2005, the most distant landing ever made.
- It is the only place besides Earth known to have stable liquid lakes on its surface.
Visit Titan in VR
In IKAREE, Titan is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Titan. Full impulse.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Titan, Captain.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Titan.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
