Titan

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(PhysOrg. com) -- "Fly me to the moon" - to Saturn's moon Titan, that is.

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  1. noun Greek Mythology One of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea, who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.
  2. noun One of prodigious size, strength, or achievement: "the twin titans of the beverage industry” (David Barboza).
  3. noun The largest satellite of Saturn and the 11th in distance from the planet. It is the second largest satellite in the solar system.

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  • A paper published in the January 29th issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters confirms what astronomers have been suspecting for the past couple of years, and namely that the atmosphere around Saturn's moon, Titan, which is approximately 10 times denser than that of the Earth, is capable of producing clouds of methane that consequentially form rain. —  Softpedia News - Global
  • The shape of the water table would be controlled by the gravitational field of Titan, which is still not fully understood. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • His 42 passes tied for the most he's thrown as a Titan, and he looked a little tired (read: inaccurate) down the line. —  SI.com
  • The second JPL team will investigate the habitability of icy worlds, such as Titan, and Saturn moons Europa and Enceladus. —  SpaceRef Top Stories
  • (03 / 20 / 2008) An ocean may lie under the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, according to research published this week in the journal Science. —  Mongabay.com News
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  1. Middle English, Helios, from Latin Tītān, from Greek.

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  1. from Middle English Titan, Tytan, from Old French Titan, French Titan =Spanish Titan =Portuguese Titão =Italian Titano =G. Danish Swedish Titan, from Latin Titan, rarely Titanus (plural Titanes, Titani), from Greek Τιτάν (plural Τιτᾶνες, Τιτῆνες), a Titan; cf. τιτώ, day, from √ τι, lighten, illumine.
 

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