Moons · 22 guides
Moons
The Solar System's most surprising real estate: buried oceans, methane seas, and volcanoes.
Start with The Moon Humans have walked on only one other world: Earth's constant companion.
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Europa Jupiter's ice-shelled moon hides an ocean with twice the water of all Earth's seas.
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Titan Saturn's giant moon, and the only world besides Earth with rain, rivers, lakes and seas.
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Enceladus The little moon that leaks its ocean into space. Free samples included.
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Ganymede The largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than Mercury and has its own magnetic field.
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Io The most volcanic world in the Solar System. Io is turning itself inside out.
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Callisto An ancient, quiet moon with a possible hidden ocean, and the most cratered world in the Solar System.
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Triton A kidnapped Pluto with erupting nitrogen geysers, circling Neptune backwards.
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Charon Half the size of Pluto itself, this giant companion makes the pair the Solar System's great double act.
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Phobos Mars's doomed potato moon is spiraling slowly toward destruction.
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Deimos Mars's tiny outer moon is a drifting lump the size of a city.
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Rhea Saturn's second-largest moon, an ancient ice ball with a whisper of oxygen.
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Iapetus Saturn's two-faced moon: coal-black on one side, snow-white on the other.
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Dione A cracked ice world that may hide a deep buried ocean.
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Tethys An ice moon scarred by a crater nearly half its own width.
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Mimas The 'Death Star' moon is hiding a shockingly young ocean.
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Hyperion The Solar System's most chaotic moon is a tumbling sponge of ice.
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Miranda Home to the tallest cliff known, Miranda is Uranus's patchwork moon.
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Ariel The brightest and youngest face among Uranus's moons.
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Titania Uranus's largest moon has canyons, frost, and a possible hidden sea.
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Oberon Old, dark, and barely explored, Oberon is the outermost of Uranus's great moons.
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Proteus Neptune's lumpy dark moon, as big as a world can be without turning round.22 in-depth guides, with every fact labeled and sourced. Star any of them to build your own collection.