Question

“Titan” is the satellite of?
(A) Mercury
(B) Mars
(C) Venus
(D) Saturn

Answer 1

Hint: The Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Titan is the moon of Saturn. Total width and height of the titan is about $2,575$ kilometers. Orbit of titan at a distance of about $1.2$ million kilometers. It is taking nearly $16$ days to complete a full orbit.

Complete step by step solution
Saturn has $82$ moons. The Titan satellite was discovered by Christian Huygens ( $1655$ ). Atmosphere of Titan is made up of nitrogen and it also has some methane. Methane is the mixture of four hydrogen atoms and one carbon atom. The air pressure on titan is higher than earths, it is very dense. The temperature of titan is very cold at about $ - 280$ F.

Space mission to titan:
1. Voyager I – extremely little known about titan prior, gave enormous amounts of information about titan’s atmospheric composition, provided estimates of atmospheric structure and temperature.
2. Cassini- Huygens- made use of the information learnt from voyager to include an imaging spectrometer to see through the haze.

Titan rotates and moves very slowly when compared to others. Appearance of the titan moon looks like a featureless orange glow because of organic molecules. Titan’s surface looks purple due to mixing of blue and red surface images.

Thus the option (D) is correct

Note Ganymede is the first largest moon in our solar system, it is the moon of planet mercury. Titan has about several layers: rocky core, surrounded by layers of crystalline ice. The orbit distance of the titan is $1,221,865$ km. Titan has a rotational period that is alike as its orbital period.