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  2. List of natural satellites - Wikipedia

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    Its eight regular moons are grouped into the planet-sized Galilean moons and the far smaller Amalthea group. They were named after lovers of Zeus, the Greek equivalent of Jupiter. Among them is Ganymede, the largest and most massive moon in the Solar System. Its 87 known irregular moons are organized into two categories: prograde and retrograde.

  3. Mars - Wikipedia

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    Mars to scale among the Inner Solar System planetary-mass objects beside the Sun, arranged by the order of their orbits outward from the Sun (from left: Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars and Ceres) Mars is approximately half the diameter of Earth, with a surface area only slightly less than the total area of Earth's dry land. [2]

  4. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The remaining objects of the Solar System (including the four terrestrial planets, the dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, and comets) together comprise less than 0.002% of the Solar System's total mass. [h] The Sun is composed of roughly 98% hydrogen and helium, [41] as are Jupiter and Saturn.

  5. Lists of geological features of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Geology of solar terrestrial planets; Planetary nomenclature; Planetary geology; List of extraterrestrial dune fields; List of tallest mountains in the Solar System; List of craters in the Solar System; List of largest craters in the Solar System; List of largest rifts, canyons and valleys in the Solar System

  6. Outline of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The Sun, planets, moons and dwarf planets (true color, size to scale, distances not to scale) The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Solar System: Solar System – gravitationally bound system comprising the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly. Of those objects that orbit the ...

  7. Astronomers Find New Mysterious Moons in Our Solar System ...

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    In an almost poetic twist, the moon is also the most reflective body in the solar system—reflecting almost 100 percent of the light that reaches it. It is a beacon in more ways than one. 4.

  8. List of Solar System objects - Wikipedia

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    Euler diagram showing the types of bodies orbiting the Sun. The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more. The Sun, a spectral class G2V main-sequence star; The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets. 2021 PH27; Mercury

  9. Astronomers discover 3 previously unknown moons orbiting ...

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    Astronomers have discovered three previously unknown moons around Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets in our solar system. The find includes one moon spotted orbiting Uranus — the first ...