Moons in our solar system (so far).

There are 891 confirmed moons in our solar system (so far). Here are the highlights:

🌍 Earth
1 moon: Our Moon is the only one where humans have set foot.

🔴 Mars
2 tiny moons: Phobos and Deimos—likely captured asteroids—huddle close to the Red Planet.

🟠 Jupiter – 95 Moons
Io: The most volcanically active world we know.
Europa: A frozen shell hides a possible global ocean beneath.
Ganymede: The largest moon in the solar system—bigger than Mercury.
Callisto: An ancient, heavily cratered relic from the early solar system.

🪐 Saturn – 274 Moons (and the current record-holder)
Titan: Thick atmosphere, rivers and lakes of liquid methane.
Enceladus: Icy geysers spewing material from a subsurface ocean.
Dozens more small, irregular moons orbit in Saturn’s vast domain.

🔵 Uranus – 28 Moons
Named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
Titania and Oberon are the largest.

🔵 Neptune – 16 Moons
Triton: Orbits backward (retrograde), suggesting it was captured from the Kuiper Belt.
Famous for its frigid temperatures and plumes of icy material erupting from below the surface.

As our telescopes improve and space missions probe deeper into the outer reaches of the solar system, we’re likely to uncover even more hidden worlds—small, icy, and mysterious—circling the giant planets far from the Sun. The story of our solar system’s moons is still being written.

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