Titania | ORBONIX

1,578 km

DIAMETER

8.71 DAYS

ORBITAL PERIOD

436,300 km

FROM URANUS

1787

DISCOVERED

8.71 DAYS

ROTATION PERIOD

LARGEST URANUS MOON

THE GIANT MOON

Titania is the largest moon of Uranus and one of the largest moons in the Solar System. Voyager 2 photographed Titania during its 1986 encounter with Uranus. The images reveal an ancient, heavily cratered surface crossed by enormous fault valleys. Some of these valleys extend for more than 1,000 kilometres across the moon. Titania is primarily composed of icy and rocky material and may have experienced significant geological activity in its past.

TITANIA FEATURES

MESSINA CHASMATA

A huge system of fault valleys stretching across Titania's surface.

ANCIENT CRATERS

Titania's surface contains many large impact craters created during its ancient history.

ICY WORLD

Titania contains a mixture of water ice and rocky material and shows evidence of ancient tectonic activity.

DID YOU KNOW?

Titania is the largest moon of Uranus. Its enormous fault valleys can stretch for more than 1,000 km.

THE LARGEST MOON OF URANUS

Titania is Uranus's largest moon. Its surface combines impact craters with long faults, valleys and scarps, indicating that the icy crust was fractured by internal geological processes after formation.

One explanation is that changes within Titania's interior caused the moon to expand and crack its outer shell. Models also investigate whether a deep liquid layer could have persisted under suitable internal conditions.

Uranus · Oberon

IMAGE: NASA / JPL / VOYAGER 2
IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS