Whether it’s the most interesting, the most beautiful, or the strangest one for you, which is, in your opinion, the best moon in the Solar System?
Could it be the Earth’s own moon, being so large in comparison to the size of our Planet? Perhaps little Phobos and Deimos of Mars? The Galilean moons of Jupiter? Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and the only one in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere? Farther out, you have the moons of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto…
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Galilean moons of course.
Everyone, including Galileo, thought that Earth is in the center of the universe and literally everything in the sky rotates around it. So he build a telescope, looked at the Jupiter and saw some dots. He looked later and the dots were in different configuration. After just couple of days he knew the dots orbit Jupiter. And suddenly the central believe of humanity was out the window. Not everything orbits Earth. We are not in the center of the universe. And the proof was right there, everyone could see it with their own eyes. Today it would be like proving we live in a simulation in way, that everyone can verify (but you know, without drugs and lasers). Every time I see the Galilean moons I think about it. Probably the greatest revolution in the human understanding of the universe, right there, for everyone to see.
I’m gonna go with Hyperion. My man is chaos in every way possible. Very unpredictable, yet somehow stable. Not tidally locked to Saturn like a bitch, just doing it’s own thing. Not even round, despite being rather on the chunky side. Some might say ugly, others would say interesting. Not very dense either.
I love how much this moon is like me.
In no particular order, and I may pick up new fascinations and change my mind here and later:
Titan (Saturn). Has a thick atmosphere and rain.
Ganymede (Jupiter). Largest moon in the Solar system. Could be mistaken for our own.
Triton (Neptune). Orbits retrograde. Larger than Pluto. Was probably once a dwarf planet in its own right.
Mimas (Saturn). Looks like a Death Star.
Honourable mentions: Saturn’s rings. Billions of moons. The other large planets’ ring systems. Cruithne.
Europa (Jupiter). All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
Obviously Luna is up there, but my personal favorite is Pluto’s moon Charon. It’s so large it turned Pluto into a binary dwarf planetary system, the only binary system in our solar system. It also shares an atmosphere with Pluto.
I like the ISS
Edit: Wait, that’s no moon. That’s a space station
- Our Moon, the protector of Earth.
- Europa, the possibility of extraterrestrial life and infinite ice.
- Titan, clouds and liquid methane on the surface.
- Enceladus, snowball.
- Io, the most interesting looking moon.
Iapetus and Io. Iapetus just looks pretty, with it’s two tone color and equatorial ridge, and Io is a volcano dominated world in a way that seems unique in the solar system if we exclude cryovolcanism, maybe earth comes the closest but it’s not nearly the same.
The one that affects my life the most; Luna.
My least favorite moon is Phobos. That shit is basically a boulder. Bitch ass little baby moon.
Europe
There’s just gotta be some cool shit under that ice ocean.
Europa. Because it’s possible - although not likely - that there’s an intelligent civilisation under the ice
It’s already quite unlikely that there is any life there, but if there was it would probably something similar to extremophile bacteria on earth, not anything close to an intelligent civilisation. Where did you get that?
I was always partial to Miranda, Uranus’ closest moon. Despite having a diameter of only 470km, it features the tallest cliff in the solar system at 20km high!
Because Uranus “rolls” around the sun like a bowling ball instead of spinning like the other planets, Miranda revolves perpendicular to most other moons in the solar system. This causes some pretty crazy seasons: they last more than 20 years, often with the sun visible (or not) the entire time.
Also, a 2023 study found that there’s a good chance Miranda has a subsurface water ocean!
Iapetus. i will not elaborate.
Enceladus, Saturns moon, because it meets all of the conditions required to harbor life, even if it’s only about the size of Arizona.
Lately Enceladus, Rhea and Charon, but historically Titan and Europa.
My wife’s pert arse. Especially when she takes me by surprise with it.
