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Solar System Moons

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Europa

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Europa orbits Jupiter. It has a subsurface ocean that may harbor extraterrestrial life.

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Titan

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Titan orbits Saturn. It has a thick atmosphere and lakes of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.

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Triton

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Triton orbits Neptune. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit.

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Io

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Io orbits Jupiter. It is the most geologically active body in the Solar System due to tidal heating.

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Callisto

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Callisto orbits Jupiter. It is heavily cratered and is the most distant of the four Galilean moons.

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Charon

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Charon orbits Pluto. It is the largest moon relative to its parent body in the Solar System.

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Phobos

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Phobos orbits Mars. It is slowly spiraling inward and may crash into Mars or form a ring around the planet in the distant future.

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Ganymede

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Ganymede orbits Jupiter and is the largest moon in the Solar System.

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Oberon

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Oberon orbits Uranus. It is the second-largest of Uranus's moons and is heavily cratered.

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Titania

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Titania orbits Uranus. It is the largest of Uranus's moons and has a system of canyons and scarps.

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Enceladus

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Enceladus orbits Saturn. It has geysers that eject water into space, indicating a subsurface ocean.

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Deimos

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Deimos orbits Mars. It is the smaller and outer of Mars's two moons and has a smoother surface than Phobos.

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Rhea

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Rhea orbits Saturn. It is the second-largest moon of Saturn and could have a thin ring system of its own.

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Mimas

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Mimas orbits Saturn. It has a large crater named Herschel that makes it resemble the Death Star from 'Star Wars'.

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Tethys

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Tethys orbits Saturn. It is largely ice with a density just slightly higher than water's.

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Iapetus

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Iapetus orbits Saturn. It has a unique color dichotomy with one hemisphere much darker than the other.

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Dione

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Dione orbits Saturn. It has bright, wispy terrain where ice cliffs are exposed.

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Ariel

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Ariel orbits Uranus. It has the youngest and brightest surface of Uranus's moons, which may indicate recent geological activity.

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Umbriel

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Umbriel orbits Uranus. It is the darkest of Uranus's large moons and has an old, heavily cratered surface.

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Miranda

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Miranda orbits Uranus. It has one of the most extreme and varied topographies with features like the Verona Rupes, the tallest known cliff in the Solar System.

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