Amazon Quiz: Which is the largest natural satellite of this planet?
Options:
Oberon
Ariel
Titania
Umbriel
Answer- Titania
Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus. This eighth largest moon in the solar system is also called Uranus III and is having a diameter of about 1,578 kilometres. It was first discovered by William Herschel in the year 1787, on January 11. Named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania’s orbit lies inside Uranus’s magnetosphere. Titania is comprised of almost equal amounts of ice and rock and probably has a differentiated core and mantle. It is assumed that there may be a layer of liquid water at the core-mantle boundary of Titania. Apart from this, this natural satellite is believed to have formed from an accretion disk that surrounded the planet when it formed.
In the solar system, Uranus is the seventh planet and has 27 known moons. Mostly, the names of Uranian moons are taken from characters that were mentioned in William Shakespeare’s works. Its moons are divided into three main groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons. Titania and Oberon were the first Uranian moons that were discovered by Sir William Herschel before anyone else. Being considered the most massive Uranian moon, Titania is intermediate in brightness between the dark Oberon and Umbriel and the bright Ariel and Miranda- the other four major moons of Uranus.
On only one occasion had Titania been closely observed i.e., when the Voyager 2 spacecraft passed through the Uranian system in 1986. The images then, showed its surface to have many bright craters, trenches, and a fault line which was deep, extending for almost 1,600 km. The coldest planet Uranus has around 27 moons including Puck, Prospero, Desdemona, Cressida, Miranda, and Puck. Also, Cupid and Mab, the small inner moons were discovered using Hubble Space Telescope in 2003.
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