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List of natural satellites

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List of natural satellites

Our Solar System has many amazing objects, including eight planets and nine likely dwarf planets. Six planets and seven dwarf planets have at least 467 natural satellites, which we call moons. These moons orbit around their planets, just like our own Moon orbits Earth.

Here is a list of moons that orbit the planets and the largest possible dwarf planets in our Solar System. The moons are ordered by their official Roman numeral designations.

Moons of planets

Satellite of EarthSatellites of JupiterSatellites of Uranus
MoonSatellites of JupiterSatellites of Uranus
Satellites of MarsSatellites of SaturnSatellites of Neptune

Moons of dwarf planets

Satellite of OrcusSatellites of PlutoSatellites of Haumea
Satellite of OrcusSatellites of PlutoSatellites of Haumea
Satellite of QuaoarSatellite of MakemakeSatellite of Gonggong
Satellite of Eris

Some of the known moons

NameParentMean radius (km)
MoonEarth1,738
PhobosMars11.3
DeimosMars6.2
IoJupiter1,821.6
EuropaJupiter1,560.8
GanymedeJupiter2,634.1
CallistoJupiter2,410.3
TitanSaturn2,575.5
TritonNeptune1,353.4
CharonPluto606

Images

A comparison diagram showing the sizes of moons in our solar system scaled to the size of Earth's Moon.
A colorful photo of Phobos, one of Mars' moons, showing its craters and surface features taken by a NASA spacecraft.
A stunning photo of Jupiter's moon Ganymede taken by the Juno spacecraft during its 34th orbit around Jupiter.
A visual guide showing the sizes of Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede based on data from the Juno spacecraft.
A colorful image of Jupiter's moon Io showing its volcanic surface, taken by the Juno spacecraft in 2023.
A colorful view of Jupiter's moon Europa, captured by the Juno spacecraft in 2022. Europa appears more white than red and is one of Jupiter's icy moons.
A colorful image of Jupiter's moon Callisto, captured by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, showing its cratered surface.
A colorful image of Deimos, one of Mars' tiny moons, taken by a camera on a NASA spacecraft.
Amalthea, one of Jupiter's moons, as photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
A photograph of Himalia, one of Jupiter's moons, taken by the Cassini space probe in December 2000.
A detailed image of Jupiter's moon Elara taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing the moon as a resolved disc from space.
An image of Pasiphaë, one of Jupiter's moons, taken by the Haute-Provence Observatory in 1998.
An image of the moon Sinope, one of Jupiter's natural satellites, captured by a French observatory in 1998.
A colorful image of Jupiter's moon Lysithea, showing different wavelengths of light in blue, green, and red.

Related articles

Jupiter
Mars
Moon
Saturn
Neptune
Pluto

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