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Moons
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ganymede | Jupiter, 1 |
| Titan | Saturn, 2 |
| Callisto | Jupiter, 3 |
| Io | Jupiter, 4 |
| Moon | Earth, 5 |
| Europa | Jupiter, 6 |
| Triton | Neptune, 7 |
| Titania | Uranus,8 |
| Rhea | Saturn, 9 |
| Oberon | Uranus, 10 |
| Named for the mythical boatman of the Greek underworld | Charon |
| Charon in what planet | Pluto |
| Pronounced differently to honor the wife of the discover | Charon, Charlnene Christy |
| Largest moon relative to size of its orbiting planet | Charon |
| Charon is in synchronous orbit with Pluto, and both show same face toward ea other at all time. | |
| Some call Pluto and Charon this because of their relative sizes | Double planet system |
| Charon’s surface | Water ice |
| Named for the two sons of Ares and Aphrodite | Deimos and Phobos |
| Phobos and Deimos discovered by | Hall |
| Orbits closer to mars | Phobos |
| Has the prominent feature, crater Stickney | Phobos |
| Rises in the west and sets in the east, twice per Martian day | Phobos |
| Why does not have synchronus orbit? | because its radius is below the limit. |
| Will impact mars or leave within 50 million years | Phobos |
| Smallest moon in solar system, was discovered two days before phobos | Deimos |
| Asteroid brought into mars’ orbit after being disturbed by Jupiter | Deimos |
| Heavily cratered, rich in carbon, and have water ice | Deimos |
| Discovered in 1610 by Galileo | Europa |
| the Gallilean moons. | Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, Io ) |
| Resembles Io and Earth, composition of silicate rocks | Europa |
| Coated in thin layer of ice, causes it to be very smooth | Europa |
| Ice layer may provide a thin atmosphere as hydrogen and oxygen are released when planet is exposed to sunlight. | |
| There is possibility of an active sea of liquid water beneath the surface | Europa |
| Most striking feature of surface is series of dark streaks that may be due to geysers or volcanic eruptions | Europa |
| Larger than mercury but only half its mass | Ganymede |
| Thought to have a 3 layered structure of a molten iron core, silicate mantle, ice exterior | Ganymede |
| Surface marked by older, dark, highly cratered regions, mixed with lighter grooved regions | Ganymede |
| Grooves indicate tectonic activity but not very recently | - Ganymede |
| Named for lover of Zeus | Io |
| Formed of silicate rock like Europa | Io |
| Dotted with active volcanoes, calderas, and signs of geological activity | Io |
| Eruptions believed to consist of sulfurous compounds that comprise thin atmosphere | Io |
| Tidal warming from gravity of Jupiter and other satellites | Io |
| Heated electrically from currents produced by Jupiters magnetic field | Io |
| Discovered by Kuiper | Nereid |
| Nereid | Neptune |
| Discovered Miranda, Titan’s atmosphere, and asteroid belt | Kuiper |
| Named for the daughters of Nereus and Doris | Nereid |
| Most eccentric orbit of any satellite 13.9.6 km | Nereid |
| Oddity of this orbit indicates it is likely a captured asteroid | Nereid |
| Named for king of fairies in a midsummer night’s dream | Overon |
| Second largest or Uranus’ satellites, and outermost of large satellites | Oberon |
| Large faults are visible across southern hemisphere | Oberon |
| Surface is heavily cratered, indicating long term tectonic stability | Oberon |
| Craters have dark floors that could possibly indicate post impact upwellings of water | Oberon |
| Largest of Saturn satellites | Titan |
| Measurements are difficult because Titan’s major characterstic: substantial atmosphere | Titan |
| Atmosphere mix Nitrogen (80%) and methane (20%) and argon trace | Titan |
| Discovered by Herschel | Titania |
| Named for queen of fairies | Titania |
| Surface is mix of craters and valleys | Titania |
| Began as liquid and then cooled surface first | Titania |
| Ice had formed, the interior, freezing forced surface cracks which formed valleys | Titania |
| Appearance of some craters where ice appears to have melted and filled in | Titania |
| Titania | Uranus |
| Titan | Saturn |
| Oberon | Uranus |
| The largest of neptune’s satellites | Triton |
| unusual retrograde orbit, indicates that it was not part of natural formation of other moons | Triton |
| Seismic activity in the form of ice volcanoes | Triton |
| Tenuous nitrogen-methane atmosphere,southern hemisphere ice cap of nitrogen and methane | Triton. |
| Odd rotational axis which tends to alternate polar and equatorial regions facing the sun | Triton |
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