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Rain does fall on Titan, but models suggest some regions wait decades between storms, and then get hit hard — the dry low latitudes appear to get their weather in rare violent downpours clustered around the equinoxes
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Huygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini's instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were lost
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Titan turns so slowly that one rotation takes almost sixteen Earth days, and it is locked in place, showing Saturn the same face forever — so from one side of the moon the ringed planet hangs permanently in the sky, and from the other it is never seen at all
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Titan's air is four times thicker than ours and its gravity a seventh as strong, which means a human being there could in principle fly under their own muscle power — strap on wings, run a few paces, and flap
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Of all the worlds beyond Earth, Titan is the only one you could step onto without a pressure suit: the air is thick enough that you would need no suit at all, only heavy protection from the deadly cold and a supply of oxygen
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Titan has four seasons much like Earth's, but there is one very strange catch to them: because Saturn takes about 29 years to circle the Sun, a single season on Titan drags on for roughly seven Earth years
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Titan may have volcanoes, but they would erupt something stranger than fire: a cold slush of water and ammonia welling up from below and freezing at the surface — 'cryovolcanism' that scientists suspect but have yet to confirm
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Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede
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Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn's moon Titan - the only world besides Earth with rivers, lakes and rain, though there the rain is liquid methane
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Scientists think it rains diamonds inside Saturn, with roughly 1,000 tons forming each year as lightning storms shatter methane into carbon soot, which the planet's crushing pressure compresses into gems before they sink toward a possible ocean of liquid diamond at the core
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How did a moon smaller than Mars end up with rivers, rainfall and lakes without a single drop of water in any of them?
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On Saturn's moon Titan, molecules that chemistry says should never mix are mixing — NASA and Chalmers University researchers found that at minus 183 degrees Celsius, substances as incompatible as water and oil can dissolve into each other
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In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274 — more moons than every other planet in the solar system combined
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Titan's gravity is so weak and its atmosphere so dense that human-powered flight through its sky isn't science fiction — the same physics that would let a person glide there also lets spacecraft descend onto it more gently than almost anywhere else in the solar system, even though the surface sits nearly 100 degrees Celsius below Antarctica's coldest recorded temperature
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