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The six largest moons of the solar system in perspective
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The six largest moons of the solar system in perspective (Original Post)
soothsayer
Nov 2020
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No. Except for Titan and our Moon, those are 4 of the 79 known moons of Jupiter...
Princess Turandot
Nov 2020
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StClone
(11,682 posts)1. Ah the Moon, our Moon is so important to life on Earth
CharleyDog
(757 posts)2. Moon Moon
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)3. Is that to scale?
Doesnt that make the moon enormous compared to its planet size?
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)4. No. Except for Titan and our Moon, those are 4 of the 79 known moons of Jupiter...
which is enormous. Titan is a moon of Saturn, which is also enormous.
PJMcK
(21,988 posts)5. Europa is the most interesting of all
It's a slushy snowball that is tidally heated by Jupiter's gravity. There could be some form of life there. That moon should be the target of our space explorations.