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Titan is the biggest of the 52 known moons orbiting Satern. It is a cold world enclosed by a thick, hazy atmosphere impenetrable by telescopes and cameras.

With an equatorial radius of 2,575 kilometers (1,600 miles), Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. It's bigger than our own moon and even the planet Mercury . Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than Titan, with a diameter barely 112 kilometers (62 miles) greater.

The temperature at Titan's surface is about minus 178 degrees C (minus 289 degrees F).

Titan orbits Saturn at a distance of about 1.2 million kilometers (745,000 miles), taking almost 16 days to complete a full orbit - 15.94 days to be exact.

Titan is of great interest to scientists because it is the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a mysterious, thick, planet-like atmosphere.

This is methane, existing in solid, liquid and gas form. this is what causes the atmosphere and the marking all over the planet that resemble parts of our own. the methane falls in droplets of about 1cm in diameter in the same way snow falls on earth.

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