Satellites

Question 1

The moon is what to earth?…

Answer 1

A satellite

Question 2

moons of mars

Answer 2

phoebes and Deimos

Question 3

Outer Planets with satellites

Answer 3

-Jupiter
-Saturn
-Uranus
-Neptune
-Pluto

Question 4

Jupiter’s Satellites

Answer 4

-Io
-Europa
-ganamede
-Callisto

Question 5

Saturn’s Satellites

Answer 5

-total of 83 moons
-titan is biggest

Question 6

Uranus satellites

Answer 6

-total of 27 moons
-5 major moons (Miranda, ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon)

Question 7

Neptune’s moons

Answer 7

-14 moons
-triton is most famous

Question 8

Pluto’s satellites

Answer 8

-3 main moons (Charon, Nix, and Hydra)

Question 9

icy satellites

Answer 9

-water ice on most
-density of 1.2- 1.6
-some rock
-often geysers

Question 10

density of large moons

Answer 10

-around 2
-half ice, half rock

Question 11

canyons and grooves

Answer 11

-means there is shifting crust

Question 12

streaks and swaths

Answer 12

-means there is extruded material

Question 13

Titan (saturn)

Answer 13

-only satellite with thick atmosphere mostly of nitrogen
-surface pressure 1-5 atm
-interior rocky and water ice mantle

Question 14

Triton (neptune)

Answer 14

-thin atmosphere of nitrogen and methane
-icy crust
-active surface

Question 15

Calisto (Jupiter)

Answer 15

-full of craters
-holds crater Valhalla

Question 16

Ganymede (Jupiter)

Answer 16

-some cratered terrain
-icy lavas
-complex network of grooves
-magnetic field (subsurface ocean)

Question 17

Europa (Jupiter)

Answer 17

-clean ice surface
-few craters
-subsurface ocean (life)

Question 18

Io (jupiter)

Answer 18

-yellow surface (sulfur)
-no craters
-volcanoes (more like geysers)
-sulfur lakes
-liquid interior due to tidal heating by jupiter and eropa