Facts about Titan - ESA

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the second largest in the Solar System (after Ganymede of Jupiter). It was discovered by Christiaan Huygens in 1655.

ESA - Kids - Our Universe - Titan

Titan is larger than the planet Mercury. It is also the second largest moon in the Solar System, and the only moon with a dense atmosphere. Just as on Earth, the ...

Titan - ESA

Facts about Titan - ESA. Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the second largest in the Solar System (after Ganymede of Jupiter). It was discovered by Christiaan ...

Life on Titan? - ESA

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a mysterious place. Its thick atmosphere is rich in organic compounds. Some of them would be signs of life if they were on our ...

Titan's atmosphere - ESA

NASA's Voyager 1 provided the first detailed images of Titan in 1980. They showed only an opaque, orange atmosphere, apparently homogeneous. It was so ...

New images from Titan - ESA

15 January 2005. These images were returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. Raw image ...

Titan first images - slideshow - ESA

See some of the first images returned by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to Titan's surface. All Huygens raw images are now available.

Titan's surface - ESA

Over the years, scientists have dramatically changed their minds about Titan's surface. In the 1990s, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spied an area on ...

Splashing down on Titan's oceans - ESA

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a mysterious place. Its thick atmosphere is rich in organic compounds. Some of them would be signs of life if they were on our ...

First images from Titan - ESA

14 January 2005. This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 ...