Moons · Moon of Uranus

Titania

435,910 km from Uranus · Light crosses it in 0.0053 seconds

Across
1,577 km
Vs Earth
12% of Earth
Mass
0.06% of Earth

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About

Titania is the largest moon of Uranus, a world of ice and rock split by enormous canyons that may have cracked open as its interior froze and expanded.

The largest moon of Uranus, scarred by canyons up to 1,500 km long.

At a glance

Size1,577 km
OrbitsUranus, every 8.7 days
Discovered1787, William Herschel
CanyonMessina Chasmata, 1,500 km

Did you know

  1. It is the eighth-largest moon in the Solar System.
  2. It may hide a thin layer of liquid water between its core and crust.
  3. When it passed in front of a star in 2001, astronomers found it has no noticeable atmosphere.

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