Natural Satellites

Did you know there are at least sixty natural satellites or moons in our solar systems?  Because astronauts have been able to explore Earth's Moon was know the most about it, but we also have been able to explore other moons through the use of many made satellites and spacecraft. We know each of the planet has one or more moons except for Mercury and Venus, which have none. Saturn has eighteen moons, the largest of which is Titan. Titan is also notable because it has its own atmosphere. Jupiter's family of sixteen moons, are all very different from one another.  Of its largest moons, Of is very rocky, sulfurous and has intensely active volcanoes.  Europa is smooth and icy Ganymede, the largest of all the moons in the solar system, has creaters and deep grooves that stretch for hundreds of miles.  Both Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury and Pluto.
Mercury & Venus  0 Moons
Earth & Pluto        1 Moons
Mars                      2 Moons
Neptune                8 Moons
Uranus                 15 Moons
Saturn                  18 Moons
Jupiter                 16 Moons



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