Umbriel

Tell me this: have you ever heard of a moon that is as dark as a shadow, has a “fluorescent cheerio” and is mostly a mystery because the only info known about it is from 1986?

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Titan

Titan! It doesn’t fall short in the name category.  This moon is outrageously cool + unique and the largest of Saturn (2nd largest in the S.S. by 2%)!!!

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Io

Meet Io, Jupiter’s fifth moon (pronounced eye-oh)! Io is several things in our solar system: the most volcanically active, the driest and most dense!

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Europa

Meet Europa! Potentially hospitable to life, Europa might just be one of the most interesting moons in our solar system (even though I say that a lot….!!!).

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Enceladus

Enceladus. Took me a few times to master the name, but I think I’ve got a firm grip on it now.  It’s an icy moon- one of the brightest objects in our solar system, reflecting every bit of the light touching it.

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Dione

Dione, isn’t that graceful?!  This one’s full of character with icy wisps and cliffs.  She’s a smaller moon, but still the 15th largest in the solar system (349 miles)!

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Charon

CHARON! For starters, before you think: “CHARON? How dare she. Pluto got demoted and she said she was going to paint all the spherical moons of the *planets* of our solar system….”

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