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Moon
The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of , a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth. It completes an orbit (lunar month) in relation to Earth and the Sun (synodically) every 29.5 days. The Moon and Earth are bound by gravitational attraction, which is stronger on the sides facing each other. The resulting tidal forces are the main driver of Earth's tides, and have pulled the Moon to always face Earth with the same near side. This tidal locking effectively synchronizes the Moon's rotation period (lunar day) to its orbital period (lu
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Titan
largest moon of Saturn
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Phobos
natural satellite of Mars
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Europa
Galilean moon of Jupiter
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Io
innermost of the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter
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Deimos
moon of Mars
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Ganymede
Galilean moon of Jupiter
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Callisto
second largest Galilean moon of Jupiter and third largest in the solar system
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Charon
largest natural satellite of Pluto
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Enceladus
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th largest in the Solar System. It is about in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is covered by clean, freshly deposited snow hundreds of meters thick, making it one of the most reflective bodies of the Solar System. Consequently, its surface temperature at noon reaches only , far colder than a light-absorbing body would be. Despite its small size, Enceladus has a wide variety of surface features, ranging from old, heavily cratered regions to young, tectonically deformed terrain.
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Oberon
moon of Uranus
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Titania
largest moon of Uranus
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Mimas
Mimas is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of , Mimas is the smallest astronomical body known to be roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity. Mimas's low density, 1.15 g/cm3, indicates that it is composed mostly of water ice with only a small amount of rock, and study of Mimas's motion suggests that it may have a liquid ocean beneath its surface ice. The surface of Mimas is heavily cratered and shows little signs of recent geological activity. A notable feature of Mimas's surface is Herschel, one of the largest craters relative to the size of the
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Rhea
moon of Saturn
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Dione
moon of Saturn
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Umbriel
Umbriel () is the third-largest moon of Uranus. It was discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell at the same time as neighboring moon Ariel. It was named after a character in Alexander Pope's 1712 poem The Rape of the Lock. Umbriel consists mainly of ice with a substantial fraction of rock, and may be differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. The surface is the darkest among Uranian moons and appears to have been shaped primarily by impacts, However, the presence of canyons suggests early internal processes. The moon may have undergone an early endogenically driven resurfaci
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Miranda
smallest of the large moons of Uranus
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Iapetus
moon of Saturn
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Ariel
fourth-largest moon of Uranus
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Metis
moon of Jupiter
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Amalthea
moon of Jupiter
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Tethys
moon of Saturn
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Adrastea
moon of Jupiter
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Thebe
moon of Jupiter
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Proteus
moon of Neptune
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Nereid
large moon of Neptune
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Hyperion
moon of Saturn
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Nix
natural satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto
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Galilean moons
four largest moons of Jupiter
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Hydra
outermost known natural satellite of Pluto
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Himalia
moon of Jupiter
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Leda
moon of Jupiter
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Galatea
moon of Neptune
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Themisto
moon of Jupiter
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Pan
moon of Saturn
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Elara
moon of Jupiter
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Styx
small natural satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto
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Naiad
moon of Neptune
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Atlas
moon of Saturn
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Pandora
Saturn XVII, officially named after Pandora from Greek mythology
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Ophelia
moon of Uranus
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Thalassa
moon of Neptune
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Prometheus
moon of Saturn
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Despina
moon of Neptune
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Epimetheus
moon of Saturn
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Helene
moon of Saturn
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Lysithea
moon of Jupiter
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Carpo
moon of Jupiter
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Puck
moon of Uranus
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Rosalind
moon of Uranus
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Daphnis
moon of Saturn
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Janus
moon of Saturn
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Cordelia
moon of Uranus
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Portia
moon of Uranus
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Calypso
moon of Saturn
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Belinda
moon of Uranus
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Juliet
moon of Uranus
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Dia
moon of Jupiter
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Desdemona
moon of Uranus
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Cressida
moon of Uranus