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Titania (/ t ə ˈ t ɑː n i ə, t ə ˈ t eɪ n i ə /), also designated Uranus III, is the largest moon of Uranus. At a diameter of 1,578 kilometres (981 mi) it is the eighth largest moon in the Solar System, with a surface area comparable to that of Australia.
Titania is Uranus' largest moon. Images taken by Voyager 2 almost 200 years after Titania's discovery revealed signs that the moon was geologically active. A prominent system of fault valleys, some nearly 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) long, is visible near the terminator (shadow line).
Titania orbits at a mean distance of 435,840 km (270,820 miles) from the centre of Uranus, which makes it the second outermost of the planet’s major moons. Its orbital period is 8.706 days, as is its rotational period.
The largest of these five, Titania, is 1,578 km in diameter and the eighth-largest moon in the Solar System, about one-twentieth the mass of the Earth's Moon. The orbits of the regular moons are nearly coplanar with Uranus's equator, which is tilted 97.77° to its orbit.
Uranus has 28 known moons, including five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The moons are sometimes called the "literary moons" because they are named for Shakespearean characters, along with a couple of the moons being named for characters from the works of Alexander Pope.
Oberon and Titania are the largest Uranian moons, and were the first to be discovered – by William Herschel in 1787. William Lassell, who had been the first to see a moon orbiting Neptune, discovered the next two, Ariel and Umbriel.
moons of Uranus: Ariel Ariel (white dot) and its shadow (black dot) crossing the face of Uranus in an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (more) The four largest moons— Titania , Oberon , Umbriel , and Ariel , in order of decreasing size—have densities of 1.4–1.7 grams per cubic cm.
Titania is Uranus’ largest moon and is the eight largest moon in the solar system. Like many of Uranus’ moons it is named after a character of William Shakespeare. Titania was discovered by William Herschel in 1787 the same day he discovered Oberon, another of Uranus’ moons.
With a diameter of 1,578 kilometers, a surface area of 7,820,000 km² and a mass of 3.527±0.09 × 1021 kg, Titania is the largest of Uranus’ moons and the eighth largest moon in the Solar...
Titania is the largest of the five spherical moons of Uranus and the 8th largest moon in the solar system, Titania was named after the Queen of the Fairies from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream.