Moons

Moons

1. Earth's moon

   • The first celestial bodie man kind has ever set foot on
   • Nobody actually discovered the moon. It has been here for a long time
   • The moon controls the tides on earth
   • Only 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth
   • The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour

2. Titan

   • The biggest moon in the solar system. Even bigger than mercury
   • Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan in 1655
   • Titans diameter is 50 percent lager than our moon
   • It gets it's hazy atmosphere from nitrogen, with methane and ethane clouds and a thick organic smog
   • One of the largest natural satellites

3. Enceladus

   • Could support life
   • William Herschel discovered Enceladus in 1789
   • Named after the Greek mythological giant Enceladus.
   • Like Europa, it has water
   • Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon
   • It is one of the most studied moons

4. Europa

   • Could support life
   • Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius discovered Europa at the same time, in 1610
   • Has water on the inside of the icy layer
   • It is the smallest of the Galilean moons
   • Europa is the sixth closest moon of Jupiter

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