Titan is the satellite of Saturn, the second largest in the solar system after Ganymede (Jupiter). In its structure, this body is very similar to the Earth. Its atmosphere also resembles ours, and in 2008 a large underground ocean was discovered on Titan. For this reason, many scientists suggest that it is this satellite of Saturn that will become the abode of mankind in the future.
Titanium is a satellite that has a mass equal to approximately 95 percent of the mass of all the satellites of the planet Saturn. Gravity is about a seventh of gravity on Earth. This is the only satellite in our system that has a dense atmosphere. The study of the surface of Titan is difficult due to the thick cloud layer. The temperature is minus 170-180 degrees, and the pressure at the surface is 1.5 times higher than that of the Earth.
There are lakes, rivers and seas on the Titan from ethane and methane, as well as high mountains, which consist mainly of ice. According to some scientists, there are several ice layers with different types of crystallization around the stone core, which reaches 3, 400 kilometers in diameter, as well as, possibly, one layer of liquid.
In the course of research on Titan, a huge hydrocarbon basin was discovered - the Kraken Sea. Its area is 400, 050 square kilometers. According to computer calculations and images taken from the spacecraft, the composition of the liquid in all lakes is approximately the following: ethane (about 79%), propane (7-8%), methane (5-10%), hydrogen cyanide (2-3%), acetylene, butane, butene (about 1%). According to other theories, the main substances are methane and ethane.
Titanium is a satellite whose atmosphere reaches a thickness of approximately 400 kilometers. It contains layers of hydrocarbon smog. For this reason, the surface of a given celestial body cannot be observed with a telescope.
The planet Titan receives very little energy from the sun to ensure the dynamics of processes in the atmosphere. Scientists expressed the view that the energy for moving atmospheric masses provides a strong tidal effect of the planet Saturn.
Rotation and orbit
The radius of the orbit of Titan is 1221870 kilometers. Outside it are saturn satellites such as Hyperion and Iapetus, and inside - Mimas, Tethius, Dion, Enceladus. The orbit of the Titan passes beyond the rings of Saturn.
A full orbit around its planet, the Titan-satellite makes in fifteen days, twenty-two hours and forty-one minutes. The speed of movement in orbit is 5.57 kilometers per second.
Like many others, the Titan satellite relative to Saturn rotates synchronously. This means that its rotation time around the planet and around its axis coincide, as a result of which Titan is always turned one side towards Saturn, therefore there is a point on the surface of the satellite at which Saturn always seems to be hanging at its zenith.
The inclination of the rotation axis of Saturn provides a change of seasons on the planet itself and its satellites. For example, the last summer on Titan ended in 2009. Moreover, the duration of each season is approximately seven and a half years, since the planet Saturn makes a complete revolution around the star Sun in thirty years.
