Who discovered Titania moon and when?
William Herschel discovered Titania on the 11th of January 1787, the same night he discovered Oberon. For nearly the next 50 years, no instrument other than Herschel's own telescope observed the moon.
Questions about Titania (moon)
Short answers, pulled from the story.
How big is Titania the moon of Uranus?
Titania has a diameter of 1,578 kilometres, making it the largest moon of Uranus and the eighth-largest moon in the Solar System.
Why is Titania named after a Shakespeare character?
All of Uranus's moons are named after characters from William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The name Titania, taken from the Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, was proposed by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of astronomer William Lassell.
Does Titania moon have an atmosphere?
Infrared spectroscopy detected carbon dioxide on Titania's surface, suggesting a possible tenuous seasonal CO2 atmosphere. A 2001 stellar occultation set the upper limit on surface pressure at 1-2 mPa, far too thin to confirm or rule out the atmosphere entirely.
Does Titania have a subsurface ocean?
Titania may have a liquid water ocean up to 50 kilometres thick at its core-mantle boundary, kept liquid by dissolved ammonia acting as antifreeze at a temperature of around 190 K. Recent studies suggest larger Uranian moons like Titania are presumed to harbour active subterranean oceans.
Has any spacecraft visited Titania?
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have imaged Titania, doing so during its January 1986 Uranus flyby at a closest distance of 365,200 kilometres. The images covered about 40 percent of the surface at a resolution of roughly 3.4 kilometres per pixel.