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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Titan is about 40% the size of the planet Earth, and is the 10th largest object in the solar system.
Going from memory here...
Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus/Neptune (don't recall which order those two belong in), Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, then finally Titan.
I'll look it up in a moment, but I wanted to post off the top of my head.
No, I didn't forget Pluto. It isn't chonky enough to be in that list (but it still has a place in my heart ❤️).
See, Pluto's radius is about 0.19 Earths vs. Titan's 0.4 Earths -- or, by mass, Pluto is 0.00218x Earth vs. Titan being 0.0225x Earth
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Ah! I was a little off. Ganymede and Titan are BOTH larger than tiny little Mercury.
Only one has sea rats, though.
Whoosh! I think I just missed a reference.