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Loading contentTitan is the largest moon of Saturn and has a dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere.
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Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere and stable surface lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane, revealed by the Cassini–Huygens mission.
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NASA (n.d.). Titan — NASA Solar System Exploration. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is known for its prominent ring system.
Titan lander · ESA · launched 1997.
Cassini–Huygens was a NASA–ESA–ASI mission launched in 1997 that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and delivered the Huygens probe to the surface of its moon Titan.
Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch polymath who built superb telescopes of his own design.
Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with a telescope of his own design.
The largest known sea of liquid methane and ethane on Titan, near the north pole — the largest body of surface liquid in the Solar System beyond Earth.
The largest lake in Titan's southern hemisphere, a shallow methane-ethane lake whose shoreline changes with the moon's seasons.
A NASA New Frontiers rotorcraft that will fly across the dunes and impact craters of Saturn's moon Titan, sampling a world with a thick atmosphere and a rich organic chemistry.
The study of how life began — the chemistry that turned simple molecules into self-replicating systems on the early Earth, and whether the same steps could happen elsewhere. A question that frames the entire search for life beyond Earth.
The icy moons with liquid-water oceans beneath their shells — Europa, Enceladus, and Titan — now the most promising places to search for life in the Solar System, targets of the Europa Clipper and Dragonfly missions.
The elements and molecules life is built from — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and complex organic chemistry. Titan has a rich organic chemistry, and Enceladus's plumes carry organic molecules from its ocean.
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Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, roughly half Pluto's diameter.
Deimos is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of Mars.
Dione is an icy moon of Saturn marked by bright wispy fractures across its surface.
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