Titan: All the coolest facts about Saturn's largest moon

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Titan is nearly twice the size of the Moon and is bigger than Mercury.

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Titan: All the coolest facts about Saturn's largest moon

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BY JOHN LOEFFLER

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Titan is home to the building blocks of life. It is literally awash in hydrocarbons.

Titan is nearly twice the size of the Moon and is bigger than Mercury.

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Titan is covered in standing lakes of methane and ethane.

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Titan's atmosphere is denser than Earth's.

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