Titan and Moon
Titan (moon of Saturn) and Moon (Earth’s natural satellite) side by side – to scale and in numbers.
| Titan | Moon | Titan ÷ Moon | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diameter | 5,150 km | 3,475 km | 1.48 × |
| Mass | 1.35 × 10²³ kg | 7.30 × 10²² kg | 1.84 × |
| Surface gravity | 1.35 m/s² from GM and radius |
1.60 m/s² | 0.85 × |
| Density | 1,881 kg/m³ | 3,340 kg/m³ | 0.56 × |
| Mean temperature | – | -20 °C | |
| Mean distance from the Sun | 1.43 billion km with Saturn |
149.6 million km with Earth |
9.57 × |
| Length of day | – | 29.5 days sunrise to sunrise |
|
| Year (orbit around the Sun) | 29.42 years with Saturn |
365.2 days (1.00 years) with Earth |
29.4 × |
| Orbit around its planet | 15.9 days around Saturn |
27.3 days around Earth |
0.58 × |
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet, JPL SSD (planetary moons), JPL SBDB (dwarf planets) – public domain. Moon gravity is calculated from the JPL mass (GM) and radius; a moon’s “year” is its planet’s orbit around the Sun. A dash – no value in these sources.
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