Titan
The
@stro object for the week of 10/04/1999
image
courtesy of SEDS
Titan. Titan
is a moon of Saturn and was discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer
Christian Huygens. Titan is thought to be composed of 1/2 ice and
1/2 rock with possible oceans of liquid methane. It will be the
target of the Huygens probe due to be dropped from the Cassini space
probe in November 2004.
Current
physical information for Saturn (northern hemisphere): |
Rise: 19h13m
PST |
Set: 8h37m
PST |
Magnitude:
-0.0 |
Phase:
99.9% |
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