Titania is the largest of the
moons of Uranus and the
eighth largest moon in the
Solar System. Discovered by
William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the
queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside
Uranus'
magnetosphere. Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and
rock, and is likely differentiated into a rocky
core and an icy
mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the
core–mantle boundary. The surface of Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to have been shaped by both impacts and
endogenic processes. It is covered by numerous
impact craters reaching 326 km in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than the surface of Uranus' outermost moon,
Oberon. Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event that obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Like all major moons of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an
accretion disk that surrounded the planet just after its formation. As of 2011, the Uranian system has been studied up close only once: by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed mapping of about 40% of the moon’s surface. (
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1783 – The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of
Calabria in present-day southern Italy, killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.
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Titania is the largest of the
moons of Uranus and the
eighth largest moon in the
Solar System. Discovered by
William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the
queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside
Uranus'
magnetosphere. Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and
rock, and is likely differentiated into a rocky
core and an icy
mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the
core–mantle boundary. The surface of Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to have been shaped by both impacts and
endogenic processes. It is covered by numerous
impact craters reaching 326 km in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than the surface of Uranus' outermost moon,
Oberon. Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event that obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Like all major moons of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an
accretion disk that surrounded the planet just after its formation. As of 2011, the Uranian system has been studied up close only once: by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed mapping of about 40% of the moon’s surface. (
more...)
1783 – The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of
Calabria in present-day southern Italy, killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
3,864,631 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.