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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Titan vs. other Biggies of Jupiter

In our solar system (often called Solar System) Titan is one of the biggest moons, and the only one with a significant atmosphere, and has the largest atmospheric column of ANY terrestrial World. Click here to look at a cool visual comparison with Earth. You can see that thick parts of Titan's atmosphere rise hundreds of kilometers above it's surface.

Here is a nice set of images comparing the relative sizes of some of the other big Moons in our Solar System (note that Venus is almost exactly the size of Earth):

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