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Titan's Relative Size

Titan's Relative Size
Published: December 17, 2004

Terrestrial planets (shown in the top row) are compared with the Solar
System's largest satellites. Titan is the second-largest satellite in the
solar system. Only Jupiter's satellite Ganymede is larger in diameter.
Titan is actually larger than the planet Mercury and is almost as large as Mars.

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