By Raza Mehdi
March 28, 2022
Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth-largest moon. It also hides an important secret – an earth-sized ocean of water! It has become a promising lead in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Bright scars on a darker surface shows a long history of impacts on Jupiter's moon – Callisto. The moon consists of about 60% rocks and 40% various types of ice.
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What makes Saturn’s Lapetus so weird are its two sides. While one side is bright, the other side is one of the darkest surfaces in the entire Solar System!
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Jupiter’s moon Lo is the Solar System’s most volcanically active body. Its volcanoes spew magma hundreds of kilometres above the surface. In 1997, a NASA spacecraft caught a massive volcanic eruption on the moon (which you can see as the blue swell in the image).
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Of Saturn’s 53 known moons, Titan is the largest. It’s also the only moon that has a cloud system and a dense atmosphere like that of the Earth.
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Hyperion's strange surface resembles a sponge with deep, dark pits. One theory to explain the look of this Saturn moon is that it's the surviving remnant of another larger moon that once orbited the gas giant.
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This saucer-shaped moon is one of Saturn’s many shepherd moons. Shepherd moons get this name because they help keep the famous rings of Saturn in line.
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The strangest feature of Mars’ Phobos is the Stickney crater, which is 9.7 km wide. Phobos has a catastrophic future ahead – it will collide with Mars in 50 million years.
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Jupiter's moon Europa looks bizarre! The moon is scarred by deep red gashes, like the red veins in the human eye, but they are actually just cracks and ridges.
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No list of interesting moons would be complete without the original wonder of the night sky, our Moon. It remains the only place outside Earth where humans have set foot.
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