Featured planetary moon
Titania
Uranus’s largest moon, fractured across an icy crust.
Titania combines broad canyons, fault valleys and impact scars on the largest satellite in the Uranian system. The tectonic features indicate that the interior expanded and broke the surface after much of the crater record had formed.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- derived map
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 788.9 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 436,298 kmSemi-major axis around the parent body.
- Orbital period
- 8.706 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.002
- Inclination
- 0.1°Uranus equator at J2000
- Rotation
- Tidally locked
World portrait
A large moon under extension
Titania’s long faults are read as structural evidence. They make the moon’s internal evolution visible without requiring a claim of present-day activity.
System geometry
Titania in motion around Uranus
Titania travels at a mean orbital distance of 436,298 km and completes a circuit in 8.706 days. Its eccentricity of 0.002 and 0.1° inclination are read against Uranus equator at J2000. Synchronous rotation keeps the same hemisphere broadly oriented toward the parent body.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
JPL fitted mean elements describe general orbit shape and orientation; they are not an accurate ephemeris.
Reviewed official partial imagery prepared as a 1K display texture. Unobserved areas are softly completed from the observed hemisphere so the globe remains natural-looking in motion; the body summary identifies those regions as reconstructed rather than directly observed. Final seam, pole and landmark review remains device-dependent.
Provenance