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Titan is the largest moon of Saturn out of 274 known moons and only moon to have a dense atmosphere of the entire solar system known so far.

This moon is so much big that it is larger than the Mercury planet. It was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, A Dutch Astronomer, and it was the first moon of Saturn to be discovered. Saturni Luna was the name given by him.

Also, it is the second largest moon in the Solar System after Ganymede, Largest Moon of Jupiter. It is also the tenth largest body in the entire solar system so far.

Titan is composed of ice and rocky materials. It has liquid water rich in ammonia which has potential of life forms. The atmosphere of Titan comprises mainly of nitrogen and methane. Its climate is capable of rain and wind which further leads to the creation of rivers, lakes, ponds, seas, deltas, dunes etc. It has methane rain cycle somewhat similar to Earth's water rain cycle. Titan is basically the most similar celestial body in the Solar System. It has 10 times the altitude in comparison to Earth. It also has formation of polar clouds made of methane.

There was a mission of Cassini-Huygens probe which was a great success at landing on Titan and provide a lot of information about it. It discovered that Titan's atmosphere has layered structure in the form of natural extremely low frequency radio waves. It also discovered propene using CISR and it was the first time to discover on any planet and also first chemical to be found by CISR. Using Cassini's RADAR mapping, it is also concluded that the Titan poses cryovolcanic (where volcano's can erupt materials like liquid water, hydrocarbons etc.) and tectonic activities. 

Titan has orbit period of 15 days and 22 hours where it only shows one face to the Saturn. It has a orbit of 12,00,000 km. It has got diameter of 5149.46 km. It has average temperature of −179 °C.

There has been future planning for the deployment of DragonFly, a robotic rotor craft capable of flying in Titan's atmosphere. It is scheduled to be launched in July 2028. 

All these information says that Titan is capable solar system body which can support organic life because of its atmosphere and surface. May be in future there will be more fruitful finding on it.

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