3570General KnowledgeMedium
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, was discovered by Christiaan Huygens on _________ ?
AFebruary 27, 1655
BMarch 1655
CApril 1655
DMay 1655
Correct answer
B. March 1655
Explanation
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on March 25, 1655. It was nearly 300 years later, in 1944, when Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered one of the characteristics that makes Titan exceptional: this distant moon actually has an atmosphere.