Why Do Scientists Think Titan Has an Atmosphere While the Large

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Multiple Choice

Why do scientists think Titan has an atmosphere while the large moons of Jupiter(Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io) do not?

• A)The jovian satellites lost their atmospheres because of Jupiter's thermal radiation.
• B)The jovian satellites never formed atmospheres because the solar nebula was too hot there.
• C)The jovian satellites had their atmospheres stripped by Jupiter's gravitational pull.
• D)The jovian satellites experienced too many collisions in their lifetimes to maintainatmospheres.
• E)Titan got its atmosphere by accreting gases from Saturn. The jovian satellites were competingwith one another to do this, so it was unsuccessful for any of them.

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