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Which Moon?
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- 1The MoonLeading theory on how this moon was formed is called Giant Splat Theory—early Earth was hit (splat) and the debris that got chucked off went into orbit and eventually coalesced into the moon.
- 2The MoonThe maria or seas of the moon are crater impact sites that have been filled in with runny lava that seeped up through weak spots and cracks of the moon’s surface.
- 3The MoonLCROSS Impact Data indicates there is plenty of ice on this Moon in deep craters where sunlight doesn’t reach.
- 4Ioinner most moon of Jupiter and 4th largest moon in solar system
- 5IoStill hot inside due to tidal heating from Jupiter
- 6IoOver 400 active volcanoes (sulfur & sulfur dioxide)
- 7IoSome peaks on this moon are taller than Everest!
- 8IoMade of silicate rock (no ice on this one)
- 9EuropaMade of silicate rock, iron core, subsurface OCEAN of water, ice layer on top-kept warm by tidal heating from Jupiter (maybe life in it?)
- 10EuropaStriated surface, craters are rare
- 11EuropaWater vapor plumes detected erupting
- 12EnceladusCassini mission just discovered a liquid water ocean under its icy surface.
- 13TitanLargest moon of Saturn. Larger by volume than Mercury and 2nd largest moon in Solar System
- 14TitanVery substantial atmosphere which is Nitrogen
Made of water ice and rocky material - 15TitanStable liquid lakes on surface of hydrocarbons-liquid ethane & methane (size of Great Lakes)
Possible cryovolcanoes - 16TitanFew impact craters
Presence of organic molecules!! Which are a precursor to life! - 17MirandaHas large racetrack like features called ovoids.
Mostly rock and ice
More geological activity than any other Uranian moon - 18TritonLargest moon of Neptune, little smaller than the moon
- 19TritonMost likely Neptune gravitationally captured it. Was once a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO)
- 20TritonThe only large moon in solar system that rotates around its planet in the opposite direction of the planet’s rotation (retrograde)
- 21TritonIce volcanoes
Ice flows
Cantaloupe terrain
Nitrogen dominated atmosphere
Surface may be nitrogen ice - 22CharonDiscovered in 1978.
Half the size of Pluto. - 23Nix and HydraDiscovered in 2005 by Hubble Space Telescope.
- 24Kerebos and StyxDiscovered by Hubble Space Telescope in 2011.
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