A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...
Titan is the only known moon with an ... the sunlight Earth does, the average surface temperature is −290 °F / −179 °C. It’s so cold that ethane and methane behave like liquids.
Yes, just like our own moon, Titan orbits a planet. But it actually looks and behaves more like an Earth. And that's why, for this mission, NASA opted for a different kind of spacecraft.
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol has revealed an interesting quirk with Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and it flies in the face of everything science has predicted.
Saturn: Near Venus in the southwest, its moon Titan and thin rings are visible through a telescope. Saturn will appear closest to Venus on Jan. 18. Uranus: High in the southeast, its visible with ...