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Titania
Position on the route: 25/45 · level needed 185 · journey (Mk0 engine) 38.1 h
By the numbers
| Diameter | 1,578 km |
|---|---|
| Gravity | 0.379 m/s² |
| Orbit | 8.7 days |
| Canyons | up to 1,500 km long |
The story
Uranus’s largest moon, half ice and half rock. Its surface shows long fault lines and giant canyons (Messina Chasmata). The crust is thought to have cracked as the interior froze and expanded.
Because Uranus spins on its side, its moons’ ‘seasons’ are 21 years of day and 21 years of night. So a day on Titania is a 42-year season.
Missions
- Voyager 2 (1986): a single flyby
Colony note
Icy, no shield needed; the long polar night and day strain any energy plan.
What probes bring back
- Uranus’s largest moon, 1,578 km across and split by giant canyons.
- Never visited apart from Voyager 2 in 1986.