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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My wife’s pert arse. Especially when she takes me by surprise with it.
Going to rep Callisto so the old girl doesn’t feel left out
Enceladus, Saturns moon, because it meets all of the conditions required to harbor life, even if it’s only about the size of Arizona.
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!
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?
Iapetus. i will not elaborate.
Lately Enceladus, Rhea and Charon, but historically Titan and Europa.
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.
My favorite moon in the solar system is Uranus.
That’s no moon
Europe
There’s just gotta be some cool shit under that ice ocean.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
I like the ISS
Edit: Wait, that’s no moon. That’s a space station
