Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 41 - Moons of the Solar System



Some large moons of the Solar System compared with the terrestrial planets





Earth's Moon - Surface features





Earth's Moon - Surface features





Earth's Moon - Formation of a crater





Earth's Moon - Interior structure





Earth's Moon - Formation hypothesis





Earth's Moon - Formation hypothesis





Mars' moons - Deimos (left) and Phobos (right)





Mars' moons - Comparison with the asteroid Gaspra





Jupiter's moons - The four Galilean moons to scale





Jupiter's moons - Surface features on the Galilean moons





Jupiter's moons - Volcanoes on Io





Jupiter's moons - Close-up of the Prometheus volcano on Io





Jupiter's moons - Close-ups of surface features on Europa





Jupiter's moons - Close-up of ice fields (blue) and ice contaminants (red) - 780 miles across





Jupiter's moons - Surface features on Ganymede





Jupiter's moons - A crater chain on Ganymede





Jupiter's moons - The impact basin Valhalla on Callisto





Jupiter's moons - Small inner satellites - From left to right: Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, Metis





Jupiter's moons - Orbits of the small inner satellites





Jupiter's moons - Origin of ring particles from Jupiter's moons





Saturn's moons - Overall summary





Saturn's moons - Saturn's largest moon Titan - Surface features seen in near-infrared light by the Hubble Space Telescope





Saturn's moons - A model for Titan's atmosphere





Saturn's moons - Artist's impression of the Cassini probe landing on Titan





Saturn's moons - The ice moon Enceladus - Evidence for geologic activity from varying crater density





Saturn's moons - The ice moon Mimas - Note the large crater named Herschel





Saturn's moons - Shepherd moons of the F ring - Pandora and Prometheus





Uranus' moons - Inner moons of Uranus





Uranus' moons - Miranda - The surface is marred with "ovoids"





Neptune's moons - Triton - Nitrogen frost and geysers - Orbits Neptune "backward"





Neptune's moons - Nereid - Small moon in a large, elliptical orbit





Pluto's moon - Surface features of Pluto and Charon





Pluto's moon - The Pluto-Charon orbit compared to the Earth





Asteroid moons - The asteroid Ida with its moon Dactyl





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