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Planetary paparazzi: Our solar system. By Kiran Nandi. A) Phobos. This moon of Mars is known as the ‘floating potato’ and hosts the Stickney Crater. It was discovered on the 18 th of August, 1887, by astronomer Asaph Hall.
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Planetary paparazzi:Our solar system By Kiran Nandi
A) Phobos • This moon of Mars is known as the ‘floating potato’ and hosts the Stickney Crater. • It was discovered on the 18th of August, 1887, by astronomer Asaph Hall. • The name comes from Book XV of the Iliad, where the Greek god Ares summons Dread (Deimos) and Fear (Phobos).
B) Ganymede • Ganymede, Jupiter, is the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is 5, 268 km.\ • It was discovered by Galileo Galilei on the 7 of January 1610. At first he thought that it was a star, but the next night, it moved. • Ganymede was named after a figure in Greek mythology – a lover of Zeus
C) Io • Io of Jupiter has over 400 volcanoes and is the 4th largest moon in the solar system. • It was discovered by Galileo Galilei, like Ganymede, Europa and Callisto. It was also discovered on the 7th of January, 1610, but with the low power of his telescope he thought at first that Io and Europa were a single mass. • Io is named after a maiden who was loved by Zeus in Greek mythology.
D) Callisto • Callisto, Jupiter, is 99% the diameter of Mercury and is one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. • It was discovered the way all of the Galilean moons were. • It was named after an other one of Zeus’s lovers, this time a nymph.
E) Deimos • Deimos, Mars, is Phobosof Mars’s twin. Its orbit takes 30.3 hours. • It was discovered by Asaph Hall on the 12 of August, 1887, 6 days before its twin was discovered. • It was named after Dread (Deimos) which Ares summons in the Iliad.
F) Titan • Titan of Saturn is the only moon with a dense atmosphere. It is composed mainly of rock and ice. • It was discovered on March 25, 1665 by Christiaan Huygens. • It was named for the Titans in Greek mythology that ruled in the Golden Age.
G) Titan • Titan of Saturn is the only moon with a dense atmosphere. It is composed mainly of rock and ice. • It was discovered on March 25, 1665 by Christiaan Huygens. • It was named for the Titans in Greek mythology that ruled in the Golden Age.
H) Rhea • This moon revolves around Saturn, has Inktomi the splat crater and is the 2nd largest moon of Saturn. • It was discovered on the 23rd of December 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini • It was named after the titan mother of the gods, Rhea, from Greek mythology.
I) Tethys • Tethys, Saturn, is home to the Odysseus crater, which, at 445 km diameter, is humungous! Its surface is also one of the most reflective in our solar system. • It was discovered by the same G.D. Cassini on the 21 March 1684. • Tethys was named for the Tethys in Greek mythology.
J) Ariel • Ariel, Uranus, has many big rift canyons and is the 2nd closest to Uranus out of its 5 major moons. • It was discovered on the 24 October 1851 by William Lassel. • It was named after the sky spirit in The Tempest by Shakespeare.
K) Oberon • Oberon, Uranus, is the reddest of Uranus’s moons and the one furthest from the planet. • It was discovered by William Herschel on January 11, 1787. • It was named after the king of the fairies in one of Shakespeare’s plays, A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
M) Iapetus • Iapetus, Saturn, has low density and is mostly made of ice. The Engelier Crater is located on it. • It was discovered by G.D. Cassini on the 25th of October 1671. • It was named for the titan Iapetus in Greek mythology.
N) Dione • Dione of Saturn was first imaged by Voyager space probes and has bright ice cliff fractures. • Dione was discovered on the 21st of March 1684 by G.D. Cassini. • It was named for Dione of Greek mythology.
O) BaltisVallis • BaltisVallis is the biggest rift valley in the solar system. It is located on Venus. • It was discovered by the Soviet Venera Orbiters in 1983. • It was named after the Syrian word for Venus.
P) Olympus Mons • Olympus Mons is the biggest volcano in our solar system. It is located on Mars. It is the second tallest mountain in the solar system. • It was discovered by Mariner 9 in around 1971. • It was named for Nix Olympica.
Q) Great Red Spot • The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is the largest permanent storm in the solar system. It is presumed to have been around for 183 to possibly 348 years. • It was discovered by Samuel Heinrich Schwabe in 1831 • It was named because, well, it is a big red spot on Jupiter.
R) Great Dark Spot • The Great Dark Spot of Neptune is a huge storm that appears like a dark blemish on the planet. It disappears and reappears sometimes. It is a lot like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – they are both anticyclones. • It was first seen by the Voyager 2, in 1989. • Again, it was named the Great Dark Spot because it is a large, dark, spot.
