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Fin Fahey wrote:
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...

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.

Alas, I fear not. The Saturnian system is a big place. The distance
between Titan and Rhea is never *less* than about twice the distance from
the Earth to the Moon. I haven't time right now to wade through the
numerical details, but it looks to me like inter-moon tides are going to
be quite insignificant.
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