This artist's impression is based on those images. Director, NASA Planetary Science Division: Dr. Lori Glaze Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency. One AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun. In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon, and sent back the first ever images from beneath Titan's thick cloud layers. Titan is about 759,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn, which itself is about 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) from the Sun, or about 9.5 astronomical units (AU). NASA Portal This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate . Light from the Sun takes about 80 minutes to reach Titan; because of the distance, sunlight is about 100 times fainter at Saturn and Titan than at Earth. Images captured by the DISR reveal that Titan has extraordinarily Earth-like meteorology and geology. Titan has a radius of about 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers), and is nearly 50 percent wider than Earth’s moon. Images show Titan's icy dunes are gigantic, reaching, on average, 0.6 to 1.2 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) wide, hundreds of miles (kilometers) long and around 300 feet (100 meters) high. NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Titan's North: The Big Picture Full Resolution: TIFF (1.14 MB) JPEG (128.9 kB) 2013-10-23: … Orbit and Rotation Images show a complex network of narrow drainage channels running from brighter highlands to lower, flatter, dark regions. The parachute tha In the foreground, sits the car-sized lander that sent back images for more than 90 minutes before running out of battery power. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon.
