Solar System Moons Series

The moons of the solar system

Eight worlds deserving their own piece: from our Moon to Triton, with this house's truth/myth treatment.

Author: Juan Carlos Euyoque Aguilera · October 7, 2026 · CC BY 4.0

Each piece separates the measured from the imagined: sourced data, myths labeled as myths, questions left open. Moons are no longer the planets' backdrop: they are worlds.

[DATO] dato medido
[MODELO] interpretado / modelado
[MITO] mito marcado
[PREGUNTA] pregunta abierta

Moon

384,400 km from Earth

Our neighbor: the only world walked by humans.

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Io

421,700 km from Jupiter

The most volcanic world in the solar system.

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Europa

671,000 km from Jupiter

An ocean under the ice: the best candidate in the search for life.

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Ganymede

5,262 km across

Bigger than Mercury; the only moon with its own magnetic field.

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Callisto

1,883,000 km from Jupiter

The oldest world in sight: 4 billion years of craters.

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Titan

1,221,870 km from Saturn

Thick atmosphere and methane rain.

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Enceladus

504 km across

Geysers from an ocean feeding the E ring.

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Triton

354,760 km from Neptune

The backwards moon: retrograde orbit and nitrogen geysers.

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