Titan is one of the most intriguing moons in our Solar System. From the outside astronomers see a ball of golden-orange haze, but what’s hiding beneath this atmosphere is what intrigues them –a freezing world with bodies of liquid. Planetary scientists are fascinated by Titan and its unusual contents. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and second-largest moon in the Solar System behind Jupiter’s Ganymede, is an icy ball that stretches out to almost 5,150 kilometres (3,200 miles) in diameter, nearly 50 per cent wider than Earth’s Moon. Due to Saturn’s position in space, around 1.4 billion kilometres (870 million miles) from the Sun – nine times farther than Earth’s average distance – its satellite Titan receives sunlight that is 100 times fainter than the light on Earth. This freezing world may
