LITTLE KNOWN DETAILS ABOUT THE MOONS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

SATURN'S MOON LAPETUS HAS A RING AROUND

ITS EQUATOR THAT IS NEARLY 13 KM HIGHER

THAN THE SURROUNDING LAND

(IT LOOKS LIKE A WALNUT)

SATURN'S MOON RHEA MAY HAVE ITS OWN RINGS.

IF SO, THESE WOULD BE THE FIRST RINGS FOUND

ON A MOON ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE

SATURN'S MOON MIMAS LOOKS LIKE THE

DEATH STAR AND ITS HEAT SIGNATURE

RESEMBLES PAC-MAN

DEIMOS, MARS'S SMALLEST MOON, HAS AN

ESCAPE VELOCITY OF 5.2 M/S. THIS MEANS THAT

IF YOU RAN AND JUMPED YOU COULD LAUNCH

YOURSELF OFF OF IT

NEPTUNE'S GRAVITY WILL ONE DAY DESTROY ITS

MOON TRITON. THIS WILL GIVE NEPTUNE A

RING SIMILAR TO SATURN

MARS'S MOONS ARE NAMED PHOBOS AND DEIMOS.

IN LATIN THIS MEANS "FEAR" AND "PANIC"

MOUNTAINS ON TITAN ARE NAMED AFTER

MOUNTAINS IN THE LORD OF RINGS TRILOGY

BY JR TOLKIEN

NASA CRASHED ITS GALILEO SPACECRAFT INTO

JUPITER IN ORDER TO PROTECT EUROPA, ONE

OF JUPITER'S MOONS THAT IS BELIEVED TO

POTENTIALLY HARBOUR LIFE