Moon of Uranus
Titania
Uranus's largest moon, split by enormous fault valleys.
Titania, the largest moon of Uranus, takes 8.7 days to orbit the planet. It stays tidally locked, with the same face toward Uranus. Like its siblings, it orbits in the plane of Uranus's tipped-over equator, nearly at right angles to the planets' orbits.
How it moves
- Titania orbits Uranus every 8.706 days at about 436,300 km.
- Its orbit is nearly circular (eccentricity 0.0011).
- It is tidally locked to Uranus.
- It orbits in Uranus's equatorial plane, which is tipped 97.77 degrees from Uranus's own orbit.
Facts
- Mean radius
- 788.9 km
- Mass
- 3.420e+21 kg
- Surface gravity
- 0.365 m/s²
- Rotation period
- 208.941 hours
- Orbital period
- 8.706 days
- Average orbital distance
- 436,300 km
- Eccentricity
- 0.0011
- Discovered
- January 11, 1787, by William Herschel
Titania has fault valleys nearly 1,600 km long, signs of a crust that once stretched apart.
Sources: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov, ssd.jpl.nasa.gov, ssd.jpl.nasa.gov