Gotta go with our boy, our own moon. There's something to be said about appreciating what you've got. It stabilizes our planet, protects us from minor meteors, gives us a beautiful ocean tides, and looks amazing almost every night we see it. We have an idea of what all the other cool moons in our solar system might look like, but ours is pretty great right in front of us. Love the mystique of basic biological chemicals found on it in recent times. It's been there since we were just kids looking at the sky, letting us know the universe is way bigger than we can imagine.
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I think Europa because if I remember right it's one of the most likely spots for life?
Io, hands down.
It's volcanic because it's being squished and pulled by Jupiter's gravity.
We've got a pretty great view of Luna, so I know that one the best. Also, the full eclipse in totality was one of the most beautiful things I've seen with my own eyes.
I think Titan is the most intriguing; it's got a freaking atmosphere! Also, it's got lots of ice. It's familiar and alien at the same time.
Obviously Luna is up there, but my personal favorite is Pluto’s moon Charon. It’s so large it turned Pluto into a binary dwarf planetary system, the only binary system in our solar system. It also shares an atmosphere with Pluto.
I think I read a novel with the bread basket theme at some point, but I can't quite place it. Heinlein, maybe.
- Our Moon, the protector of Earth.
- Europa, the possibility of extraterrestrial life and infinite ice.
- Titan, clouds and liquid methane on the surface.
- Enceladus, snowball.
- Io, the most interesting looking moon.
Galilean moons of course.
Everyone, including Galileo, thought that Earth is in the center of the universe and literally everything in the sky rotates around it. So he build a telescope, looked at the Jupiter and saw some dots. He looked later and the dots were in different configuration. After just couple of days he knew the dots orbit Jupiter. And suddenly the central believe of humanity was out the window. Not everything orbits Earth. We are not in the center of the universe. And the proof was right there, everyone could see it with their own eyes. Today it would be like proving we live in a simulation in way, that everyone can verify (but you know, without drugs and lasers). Every time I see the Galilean moons I think about it. Probably the greatest revolution in the human understanding of the universe, right there, for everyone to see.
Enceladus, Saturns moon, because it meets all of the conditions required to harbor life, even if it's only about the size of Arizona.
I was always partial to Miranda, Uranus' closest moon. Despite having a diameter of only 470km, it features the tallest cliff in the solar system at 20km high!
Because Uranus "rolls" around the sun like a bowling ball instead of spinning like the other planets, Miranda revolves perpendicular to most other moons in the solar system. This causes some pretty crazy seasons: they last more than 20 years, often with the sun visible (or not) the entire time.
Also, a 2023 study found that there's a good chance Miranda has a subsurface water ocean!
They're all mine except Europa. That's the one place where I attempt no landings.
The one that affects my life the most; Luna.
My least favorite moon is Phobos. That shit is basically a boulder. Bitch ass little baby moon.
Ganymede. Gotta love a magnetosphere. Third Galilean rock from Jupiter. Oxygen in the atmosphere.
In no particular order, and I may pick up new fascinations and change my mind here and later:
Titan (Saturn). Has a thick atmosphere and rain.
Ganymede (Jupiter). Largest moon in the Solar system. Could be mistaken for our own.
Triton (Neptune). Orbits retrograde. Larger than Pluto. Was probably once a dwarf planet in its own right.
Mimas (Saturn). Looks like a Death Star.
Honourable mentions: Saturn's rings. Billions of moons. The other large planets' ring systems. Cruithne.
Europa (Jupiter). All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
Iapetus and Io. Iapetus just looks pretty, with it's two tone color and equatorial ridge, and Io is a volcano dominated world in a way that seems unique in the solar system if we exclude cryovolcanism, maybe earth comes the closest but it's not nearly the same.
Europa
There's just gotta be some cool shit under that ice ocean.
Europa. Because it’s possible - although not likely - that there’s an intelligent civilisation under the ice
It's already quite unlikely that there is any life there, but if there was it would probably something similar to extremophile bacteria on earth, not anything close to an intelligent civilisation. Where did you get that?
I'm a Charon fan. I think it's fascinating that a (dwarf) planet that is smaller than our Luna has its own moon. And several others!
You go, Pluto, proud of you.
Maybe Kate Upton's, although she's known more for another pair of heavenly bodies.
My favorite moon in the solar system is Uranus.

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