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Moons of the Solar System Flashcards

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Jovian moon named after the lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow and was (after being restored to humanity) the ancestress of heroes, including Heracles

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Io

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The innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars

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Phobos

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This moon is believed to have a water ocean beneath its surface and is believed to be one of the most likely places to find extraterrestrial life in our Solar System

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Europa

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Jovian moon named after the Trojan hero who was kidnapped by Zeus in the form of an eagle to be cupbearer to the gods

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Ganymede

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Jovian moon named after the mythological figure who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull

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Europa

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Moon of Orcus, named after a winged female demon of the Etruscan underworld

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Vanth

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Person credited with discovering Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Mimas and Uranus’s moons Titania and Oberon

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Herschel

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The second-largest moon in the Solar System

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Titan

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The only moon known to have a dense atmosphere

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Titan

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Number of known moons of Jupiter

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79

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The only moon known to have a magnetic field

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Ganymede

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Moon of Mars named for the Greek god who is the son of Ares and Aphrodite and is the personification of terror/dread

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Deimos

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The second-largest of Saturn’s moons; named for the mother of the gods in Greek mythology

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Rhea

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The two missions, launched in 1977 to the outer solar system, that discovered a large number of moons

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

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The largest and most massive of the Solar System’s moons

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Ganymede

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The surface of this moon is the oldest and most heavily cratered in the Solar System

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Callisto

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This moon has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the Solar System

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Europa

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Person credited with discovering Saturn’s moon Titan in 1655

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Huygens

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The only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris; named for the daughter of the goddess Eris who was the personification of lawlessness/anarchy

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Dysnomia

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The second-largest moon of Jupiter

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Callisto

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This dwarf planet’s two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka, are named after Hawaiian goddesses

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Haumea

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The only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit

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Triton

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The smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter,

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Europa

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A moon of Pluto, named for the dog that guards the Underworld of Greek mythology

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Kerberos

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The smallest of the Plutonian moons, named for a river in the Underworld in Greek mythology

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Styx

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Moon of Mars named for the Greek god who is the son of Ares and Aphrodite and is the personification of fear

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Phobos

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The largest of the Uranian moons; named from a fairy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Titania

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The second-largest of the Uranian moons; named from a fairy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Oberon

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The most geologically active object in the Solar System as a result of tidal heating

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Io

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Planet whose moons are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

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Uranus

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The outermost of the Plutonian moons, named for a monstrous serpent of Greek mythology

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Hydra

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First asteroid moon to be discovered, by the Galileo probe in 1993, orbiting Ida; named for the mythological creatures that inhabited Mount Ida

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Dactyl

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Person credited with discovering Neptune’s moon Triton just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself; also independently co-discovered Saturn’s moon Hyperion and Uranus’s moons Ariel and Umbriel.

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Lassell

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The largest of Saturn’s moons

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Titan

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The largest of the Neptunian moons; named for a Greek god who was the messenger of the sea and a son of Poseidon

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Triton

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Because of its orbit and composition, this large moon is thought to have been a dwarf planet captured from the Kuiper belt

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Triton

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The smaller and outermost of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars

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Deimos

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Person credited with discovering Jupiter’s moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto in 1610

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Galileo

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The innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter

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Io

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The largest of the Plutonian moons

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Charon

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Moon mapped by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft; the Huygens probe landed on the surface

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Titan

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A moon of Pluto, named for the Greek goddess of the night

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Nix

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Person credited with discovering Saturn’s moons Iapetus (1671), Rhea (1672), and Tethys and Diona (1684)

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Cassini

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Name of the lander that landed on Titan

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Huygens (from the Cassini mission)

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Person credited with discovering the two small moons of Mars

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Hall

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Moon of Saturn known for its cryovolcanoes which shoot geyser-like jets of water vapor; named for the giant who was the opponent of Athena in Greek mythology

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Enceladus

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First asteroid to have a confirmed moon (Dactyl); named for a nymph from Greek mythology

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Ida

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Jovian moon named after the nymph and follower of Artemis who was seduced by Zeus and transformed by a jealous Hera into a bear (Ursa Major)

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Callisto

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Trans-Neptunian object orbited by the moon Vanth and named for the Etruscan god of the underworld

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Orcus

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The largest of the inner Jovian satellites and the largest and first to be discovered after the Galilean moons; named for the nymph who was the foster mother of Zeus

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Amalthea

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