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Questions
- What is the name of the plain which became the first location on another celestial body to be visited by humans?
- Name the two natural satellites of Mars?
- What collective name is given to the four largest moons of Jupiter?
- Which of Jupiter's moons is the largest moon in the Solar System?
- Named after characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, what are the two largest moons of Uranus?
- Can you name the largest moon of Neptune? It is the only large moon that has an orbit which rotates opposite to its planet.
- Not discovered until 1978, name the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto?
- Why do Mercury and Venus have no moons?
- Which of Saturn's moons is larger than the planet Mercury?
- As of 2024, which planet has 146 moons with confirmed orbits, the most of any planet in the solar system?
- Which planet's moons include Io and Europa?
- Usually in October, what full moon follows the harvest moon?
Answers
- Mare Tranquillitatis, or the Sea of Tranquility
- Phobos (the largest) and Deimos
- The Galilean moons
- Ganymede
- Titania and Oberon
- Triton
- Charon
- Because of their close proximity to the Sun (the gravitational pull of the Sun would make it difficult for any moons to remain in orbit)
- Titan
- Saturn
- Jupiter
- Hunter's moon