Titan is much larger than the neigbouring Saturnian moons.It is larger than Mercury and Pluto and the second largest moon in the solar system after Jupiters Ganymede.It was discoverd in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christan Huygens,the first moon to be detected following Galileos revolutionary discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter.Titan is the only body in the solar system to contain a nitrogen-rich atmousphere like Earths,although it is much more dense.
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