Henry Spencer wrote:
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Craig Fink wrote:

Just wondering how big the tides on Titan might be?
Maybe they're huge?


Yes and no. Your intuition is correct that Saturn will raise very large
tidal bulges in Titan. *However*, Titan is tide-locked to Saturn, so
those big bulges don't move around much -- the moon is basically just a
little bit egg-shaped all the time.

Titan's slightly elliptical orbit will cause the bulges to move around a
little, and also to change height slightly as the distance from Saturn
changes. So they aren't *quite* completely fixed, but fairly close to it.


How about tides due to other moons? (I think Rhea or Dione would be the
best candidates.) They wouldn't be anything like the size of our lunar
tides, but maybe there'd be a measurable effect.

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