Titania

Titania, the largest moon of Uranus

Titania is also called Uranus III.
It is the largest moon of Uranus, the eighth most massive of the solar system.
Titania is formed from an accretion disk around the planet Uranus, some time after its formation. The other scenario is that Titania formation is the result of a giant impact, perhaps one that gave Uranus its inclination to the plane of rotation around the Sun.
It was discovered Jan. 11, 1787 by William Herschel, along with Oberon, the second largest moon of Uranus.
Titania is composed of about 50% of ice, 30% silicate and 20% of chemical compounds close to the methane.
One of its main physical characteristics is the presence of a huge canyon, far larger than the Grand Canyon on Earth, the same order of magnitude as Valles Marineris on Mars or Ithaca Chasma on Tethys, Saturn's moon.
The overall albedo of Titania is low (0.17).
All the moons of Uranus are named character works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
Titania is the Queen of the Fairies in "The Dream of a Summer Night" by William Shakespeare.

Image: Titania, the moon of Uranus, photographed by Voyager 2 in 1986. Its surface is slightly red, young impact deposits are slightly blue and the plains are reddish. Credit: NASA