Know any really cool facts about the moons in our solar system?
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Saturn has atleast 18 moons, more than any other planet
Jupiter, the largest planet could contain 1300 earths
The moon is approximately 4.6 billion years old
Saturn's moon Titan may actually be a planet itself. How's that for interesting?
Saturn's moon Titan
is really just a huge slushy ball, but is very likely made out of some potentially useful slush...dunno...look it up
I'm not just giving you a link to avoid typing an approprite answer. If I had the time, I would compile a nice article on the subject, because astronomy is my hobby. Take a look at the link below. It has a lot of interesting information and its easy to follow. Click on the links on this page for other interesting sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_sat...
Good luck with your project.
To take you to look at it and think about the dynamics in the universal system.
Check out the four major moons of Jupiter.
Io, Europa, Ganymade, and Callisto are so dissimilar, with so many amazingly different features they are a study in themselves.
Plus, they provided Galileo with the proof that the sun was the center of the solar system, not the Earth. \
Comparing and contrasting those four will keep you busy.,
You can always see only one face of the moon, it always faces earth the same way.
http://www.spacetoday.org/solsys/moons/m... check this link it may help for ur project
Just saw a Nova program on Titan. One of the coolest things about Titan is that we discovered that it has volcanoes on it that ooze "lava" that is composed of water and ammonia at a chilly temperature of -100 degrees. This is referred to as cryovolcanism.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titan/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/titan_(moon...
Io, one of Jupiter's Galilean moons, spouts volcanoes of liquid sulphur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/io_%28moon%...
Europa, another of Jupiter's Galilean moons, is covered by an ocean of water and crust of ice that are a combined 100km thick. To put this into perspective, the deepest place on Earth, the Marinas Trench is about 11km deep. Europa's ocean is 9 times deeper than earth's!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/europa_%28m...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marianas_tr...
For more information on the other Galilean moons of Jupiter, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galilean_mo...
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