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Moons
- Earth's
Moon (Luna)
- Our moon is
384,400 km away
from the Earth.
- Only about 60%
of the moon's
surface is
visible from
planet Earth.
- From Earth, you can
only see one side of
the moon, because
the other side is
always hidden.
- The moon doesn't
have a global
magnetic field.
- The first spacecraft to
send back pictures of
the moon was named
after it. It was called
The Luna 3.
- Saturn's
moon (Titan)
- Titan has a lot of
deep methane lakes
on its surface.
- Titan is
Saturn's largest
moon.
- Titan is the
second largest
moon in the solar
system.
- Titan may be
habitable to other
forms of life.
- Titan has the
densest
atmosphere out of
all the moons in the
solar system.
- Titan is thought to
possibly contain liquid
water.
- Saturn's
moon
(Enceladus)
- Enceladus is
Saturn's sixth
largest moon.
- Enceladus was
first examined
in detail by the
Voyager
spacecraft.
- Enceladus'
body is
mainly
composed of
ice.
- Enceladus may be
heated from the inside
with radioactive
heating.
- A spacecraft called Cassini
photographed Enceladus, and
revealed that geysers of water may
exist on its surface. They are possibly
fed by the oceans under Enceladus'
surface.
- Jupiter's
moon
(Europa)
- Europa is
Jupiter's sixth
closest moon.
- Europa was
discovered by
Galileo Galilei on
January 8th
1610.
- Europa is the sixth largest
moon out of the 181
moons in the solar system.
- Although
Europa is
about 4.5
billion years
old, its
surface is 20
to 180
million years
old.
- There is enough radiation on
Europa to kill a human in just
one day.
- Europa may have oceans
of liquid saltwater under
its surface.