Interesting things about the moons in the Solar System

Mars - the planet closest to Earth, has 2 moons. Pluto - a dwarf planet with 5 moons.

Mars - the planet closest to Earth, has 2 moons. Pluto - a dwarf planet with 5 moons. Neptune has 14, Uranus has 27 moons. Jupiter and Saturn both have 53 moons, while Venus and Mercury have no natural satellites.

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Earth's Moon. Revolving around the Earth at an average distance of 384,400km, our Moon is the largest natural satellite of the parent planet in the Solar System.

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Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the 2nd largest natural satellite in the Solar System. Titan is the only moon with a thick, icy atmosphere.

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Jupiter's moon Ganymade is larger than both Mercury and Pluto.

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Pan is the moon of Saturn, named after the half-man, half-goat god in Greek mythology. Pan was discovered in 1990.

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Europa is Jupiter's 4th largest moon. It has been suggested that an ocean exists under Europa's icy surface.

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Phobos is the largest of the two moons of Mars (the other being Deimos). Scientists think Phobos is in a 'death spiral' that orbits slowly towards the surface of Mars.

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Enceladus is the frozen moon of Saturn.

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With more than 400 active volcanoes, Io, Jupiter's moon, is the most geologically active object in the Solar System.

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Callisto is the object with the most craters in the Solar System. Callisto is Jupiter's second largest moon, after Ganymede.

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Hyperion is the largest non-spherical moon in the Solar System. Saturn's moon Hyperion is shaped like a sponge.

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Atlas - Saturn's saucer-shaped moon.

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Miranda, the moon of Uranus, has a distinctive surface. The 10,058-meter-high Verona Rupes cliff on Miranda is said to be the tallest cliff in the Solar System.

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Triton, the moon of Neptune. Triton's south pole is frozen nitrogen and methane.

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Lapetus, a strange moon of Saturn. Lapetus is special with a surface of 2 halves: half light, half dark.

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Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. In fact, Charon is the largest moon compared to the parent planet in the Solar System. But because Pluto is a dwarf planet, our Moon is still considered the largest natural satellite.

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Epimetheus - Saturn's moon, attracts scientists because it shares an orbit with another moon of this planet, Janus.

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Janus and Epimetheus are two moons orbiting Saturn, and every four years, these two moons change orbits.

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Methone - moon of Saturn, egg-shaped.

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Umbriel is the darkest moon of Uranus.

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Dactyl is the most distinct moon in the Solar System. It is a natural satellite of the planet Ida, located between Mars and Jupiter.

Update 16 November 2021
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