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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 .
The major moons of Uranus are airless bodies. For instance, Titania was shown to possess no atmosphere at a pressure larger than 10–20 nanobar. [42] The path of the Sun in the local sky over the course of a local day during Uranus's and its major moons' summer solstice is quite different from that seen on most other Solar System worlds.
Gertrude / ˈ ɡ ɜːr t r uː d / is the largest known crater on Uranus's moon Titania. A peak-ring impact basin, it is roughly 326–400 kilometers across, [1] [2] 1/5 to 1/4 of Titania's diameter. [a] Gertrude was first observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on its January 1986 flyby of the Uranian system.
Ursula is the second-largest impact crater known on Uranus's moon Titania.It is about 135 km across, and is cut by Belmont Chasma. [1] It is named after Hero's attendant in William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing; the name Ursula was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1988.
There are 13 moons that orbit within Uranus's ring system, and another ten outer irregular moons. ... Main-group moon [16] [17] Titania: Uranus: III (3)
This discovery image shows the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan telescope on November 4, 2023. Uranus (upper left) is just off the field of view.
Uranus's Frankensteinian moon Miranda looks like it’s been torn apart and stitched back together a thousand times. Miranda, the innermost of the planet's five major moons, has a bizarre surface ...
In the 1840s, better instruments and a more favourable position of Uranus in the sky led to sporadic indications of satellites additional to Titania and Oberon. Publications hesitated between William Herschel's designations (where Titania and Oberon are Uranus II and IV) and William Lassell's (where they are sometimes I and II). [18]