Moons in our Solar System
There are hundreds of moons in our solar system. Most orbit planets, but some asteroids also have moons. Moons come in many shapes, sizes, and types.
For two weeks in mid-December 2010, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) aimed its wide angle camera straight down to take about...
NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth's Moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter...
Mars has two cratered moons. Phobos, the larger of the two, circles the Red Planet about every eight hours from...
This montage shows the best views of Jupiter's four large Galilean satellites as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft during...
Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from...
By using certain types of color filters, as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus, astronomers can extract more...
This composite Hubble Space Telescope picture shows the location of a newly discovered moon, designated S/2004 N 1, orbiting the...
This montage of views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's small ring moons: Atlas, Daphnis and Pan at...
This image of Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons and the largest moon in our solar system was taken by NASA's...
