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Titan: a moon where you could fly

Titan has methane seas and air so dense that with wings on your arms you could fly. Facts with their sources, Huygens and Dragonfly.

Titan, an orange sphere blurred by its thick atmosphere, in natural colour, photographed by Cassini
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute · original

Curious facts

  1. Lakes and seas of methane

    It is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids on its surface. It has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas, but not of water: they are hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane. 1

  2. A 1,200 km sea

    Its largest sea, Kraken Mare, stretches about 1,200 km. At −179 °C, water ice plays the role of rock there. 23

  3. You could fly with wings

    Its air is about four times denser than Earth’s and you would weigh about seven times less there. That is why a NASA scientist explains that, with wings strapped to your arms, you could flap them like a bird and take off. 45

  4. The most distant landing

    On 14 January 2005 ESA’s Huygens probe touched down on Titan. It is still the most distant landing from Earth ever made. 67

  5. A drone the size of a car

    NASA is building Dragonfly, an octocopter about the size of a small car. It will launch in 2028, no earlier than July, and reach Titan in late 2034. 8

Titan in Orbit

In the game, Titan is jump 25 of the route, 1,280 M km from Earth. Its logbook card says:

Logbook · Jump 25

Has lakes and seas of liquid methane

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What Orbit is like

Sources

  1. NASA, Titan. science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/titan
  2. NASA, PIA22481. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA22481
  3. NASA, Titan: Facts. science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/titan/facts
  4. NASA, Scientist for a Day: Titan. science.nasa.gov/resource/scientist-for-a-day-option-2-titan
  5. NASA, Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast 168. nasa.gov/podcasts/small-steps-giant-leaps/episode-168-dragonfly-mission-to-titan
  6. ESA, Huygens 2005. esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Huygens_landing_on_Titan_2005
  7. NASA, Huygens Probe. science.nasa.gov/mission/cassini/spacecraft/huygens-probe
  8. NASA, Dragonfly. science.nasa.gov/mission/dragonfly

Checked between 8 and 11 October 2026.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute · original