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| Charon | Named for the boatman on the Styx in the Greek Underworld, this is the closest moon in size to its planet, Pluto. |
| Deimos and Phobos | Greek for "fear" and "panic," named for sons of Ares, these are the moons of Mars. |
| Europa | A Galilean moon of Jupiter, this moon has a layer of ice and possibly an atmospherel |
| Ganymede | This moon of Jupiter appears to have long ago undergone tectonic shifts. Currently it is the largest moon in the solar system. |
| Io | Named for a lover of Zeus, this moon of Jupiter contains volcanoes and heated from Jupiter's magnetic field causing a radiation field. |
| Nereid | This moon of Neptune is likely a captured asteroid due to it's largest eccentricity of known satellites. |
| Oberon | The outermost moon of Uranus (and thus named form literature, not mythology like with other planets), this satellite has many craters and is half rock and half ice. |
| Titan | The largest of Saturn's moons, this is the only satellite in the solar system to have a stable atmosphere (consisting of nitrogen, methane and trace amounts of argon). |
| Titania | This moon of Uranus (and a Shakespeare character) has many cracks filled with ice and a tenuous methane/nitrogen atmosphere. |
| Triton | This Neptunian moon, the largest of that planet's, has a retrograde orbit, making it not part of the natural formation of Neptune's other moons. It's orbit also has causes a ice cap in the southern hemisphere. |
