Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede

Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede

A moon in our solar system is wider than a planet. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is about 5,150 kilometers across. Mercury, a full planet orbiting the Sun in its own right, is smaller than that. The moon wins on width. And yet Mercury is the heavier, denser object by a wide margin. Both things are true at once, and that tension is what makes this worth looking at. The moon bigger than a planet “Bigger” turns out to be a slippery word. Measured b…

Scientists Just Found New Evidence for Life on Saturn's Moon

Scientists Just Found New Evidence for Life on Saturn’s MoonEveryone expected Saturn’s brightest moon to be a dead ball of ice. Instead, Cassini found it erupting — firing the raw chemical ingredients of life into space at supersonic speed. Credit to : Today in the Space World