Moons
36 moons in our database.
Moon
Earth only natural satellite. Formed from debris after a Mars-sized body hit Ear...
384,400 km from its planetMoonPhobos
Mars larger moon, heavily cratered. Orbiting only 6,000 km above Mars surface an...
9,376 km from its planetMoonDeimos
Mars smaller and outer moon. Looks more like a smooth, lumpy potato than a spher...
23,460 km from its planetMoonIo
The most volcanically active body in the solar system. Over 400 active volcanoes...
421,700 km from its planetMoonEuropa
Has a smooth, icy surface covering a global saltwater ocean. The ocean may conta...
671,100 km from its planetMoonGanymede
The largest moon in the solar system, bigger than Mercury. The only moon with it...
1.1 million km from its planetMoonCallisto
Jupiter second largest moon. The most heavily cratered object in the solar syste...
1.9 million km from its planetMoonTitan
The only moon with a thick atmosphere. Has lakes and seas of liquid methane and ...
1.2 million km from its planetMoonEnceladus
A small moon with dramatic geysers shooting water ice from its south pole. Has a...
238,000 km from its planetMoonTriton
Neptune largest moon. Orbits backwards (retrograde), suggesting it was captured ...
354,800 km from its planetMoonCharon
Pluto largest moon. So large relative to Pluto that the two orbit a point betwee...
19,590 km from its planetMoonMimas
Death Star lookalike with the 139 km Herschel crater spanning a third of its dia...
185,500 km from its planetMoonRhea
The second largest moon of Saturn, an icy body with wispy bright fractures on it...
527,000 km from its planetMoonIapetus
The two-toned moon, dark as coal on one side and bright white on the other. Dust...
3.6 million km from its planetMoonDione
A cratered ice moon with towering bright cliffs called chasmata on its trailing ...
377,400 km from its planetMoonTethys
Almost pure water ice, giving it the lowest density of any large moon. Ithaca Ch...
294,620 km from its planetMoonHyperion
A sponge-looking moon riddled with deep pits, about 40 percent empty space insid...
1.5 million km from its planetMoonPhoebe
The largest irregular moon of Saturn, orbiting backwards like a captured object....
12.9 million km from its planetMoonJanus
Co-orbital partner of Epimetheus, swapping orbits every four years in a gravitat...
151,470 km from its planetMoonEpimetheus
Shares the same orbital lane as Janus, exchanging inner and outer positions ever...
151,420 km from its planetMoonPan
A ravioli-shaped shepherd moon orbiting inside the Encke Gap of the A ring. Its ...
133,580 km from its planetMoonAtlas
A flying saucer lookalike with a smooth equatorial ridge built from ring particl...
137,670 km from its planetMoonPrometheus
The inner shepherd of the F ring, repeatedly carving dark channels and streamers...
139,380 km from its planetMoonPandora
The outer shepherd of the narrow F ring, working with Prometheus to keep it conf...
141,710 km from its planetMoonAriel
The brightest Uranian moon, with the youngest surface of the group. Deep rift va...
190,900 km from its planetMoonUmbriel
The darkest of the five major Uranian moons, reflecting barely 16 percent of lig...
266,000 km from its planetMoonMiranda
A jumbled patchwork world with Verona Rupes, a 20 km tall cliff, the tallest kno...
129,390 km from its planetMoonPuck
The largest inner moon of Uranus found by Voyager 2. Nearly round despite its sm...
86,000 km from its planetMoonSycorax
The largest irregular moon of Uranus, orbiting backwards on a distant path. Ligh...
12.2 million km from its planetMoonNereid
A distant moon with the most eccentric orbit of any known satellite, swinging be...
5.5 million km from its planetMoonProteus
About as large as an object can be while staying lumpy rather than round. Extrem...
117,650 km from its planetMoonLarissa
A cratered inner moon first detected in 1981 when it briefly blocked a star, the...
73,100 km from its planetMoonDespina
A small moon hugging Neptune, found in Voyager 2 images days before closest appr...
52,520 km from its planetMoonGalatea
Shepherd of the Adams ring and its bright arcs. Its gravity confines the dusty a...
61,950 km from its planetMoonHimalia
The largest irregular moon of Jupiter, leader of a group of about 170 members. L...
11.5 million km from its planetMoonAmalthea
One of the reddest moons of Jupiter, tinted by sulfur blasted from Io. The last ...
181,400 km from its planet