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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Uranus's Largest Moon: Titania
NASA ^ | 31 Mar, 2026 | Image Credit: NASA, Voyager 2; Processing & License: zelario12

Posted on 03/31/2026 10:36:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of canyons, cliffs, and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the largest moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the feature picture. That the trenches of Titania resemble those on another moon of Uranus, Ariel, indicate that Titania underwent some violent surface event possibly related to water freezing and expanding in its distant past. Although Titania is Uranus's largest moon, it is only about half the radius of Triton - the largest moon of Uranus's sister planet Neptune, which itself is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon. Titania, discovered by William Herschel in 1787, is essentially a large dirty iceball that is composed of about half water-ice and half rock. There is recent speculation that radioactive heating melts some underground ice into oceans.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 03/31/2026 10:36:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 03/31/2026 10:36:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 03/31/2026 10:38:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Uranus... Titania...

Let the Junior High Grade School remarks begin.


4 posted on 03/31/2026 10:41:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Ill-met by moonlight...”


5 posted on 03/31/2026 10:43:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MtnClimber
Looks like Uranus has a case of plumbers crack...


6 posted on 03/31/2026 10:46:43 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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wow lookie all the asteroid hits.


7 posted on 03/31/2026 10:53:25 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: MtnClimber

“That’s no moon!”


8 posted on 03/31/2026 11:28:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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“A large dirty iceball”

I’ve been called worse.


9 posted on 03/31/2026 11:49:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Wow.


10 posted on 03/31/2026 11:54:24 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

Is this where titanium comes from? How is it shipped to the earth?


11 posted on 03/31/2026 12:12:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Responsibility2nd

I went to school with a girl named Titania.


12 posted on 03/31/2026 12:16:18 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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wow lookie all the asteroid hits.

Celestial monkeypox. Heh.

13 posted on 03/31/2026 12:35:25 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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lol +1


14 posted on 03/31/2026 1:07:40 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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