{"id":3299,"date":"2013-07-10T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2013-07-10T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:08:41","slug":"sizes-of-the-major-moons-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Sizes of the major moons of the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some nice graphics Emily Lakdawalla of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a> displaying the relative sizes of major moons in our Solar System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2013\/scale-comparisons-solar-system-moons.html\" target=\"_d\">Scale comparisons of the solar system&#8217;s major moons | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/charts\/the-solar-systems-major-moons.html\" target=\"_d\">The Solar System&#8217;s Major Moons | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/comparisons\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3300\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=3300\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3300\" alt=\"20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext_500x281-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Solar System contains 18 or 19 natural satellites of planets that are large enough for self-gravity to make them round. (Why the uncertain number? Neptune\u2019s moon Proteus is on the edge.) They are shown here to scale with each other. Two of them are larger than Mercury; seven are larger than Pluto and Eris. If they were not orbiting planets, many of these worlds would be called \u201cplanets,\u201d and scientists who study them are called \u201cplanetary scientists.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/comparisons\/20130619_solar-system-major-moons-by-location-withtext.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Large image<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. The Moon: Gari Arrillaga. Other moons data: NASA\/JPL. Processing by Ted Stryk, Gordan Ugarkovic, Emily Lakdawalla, and Jason Perry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some nice graphics Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society displaying the relative sizes of major moons in our Solar System: Scale comparisons of the solar system&#8217;s major moons | The Planetary Society The Solar System&#8217;s Major Moons | The Planetary Society The Solar System contains 18 or 19 natural satellites of planets that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sizes of the major moons of the Solar System<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-multiple-media","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Rd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10311,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10311","url_meta":{"origin":3299,"position":0},"title":"Water is plentiful in our solar system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Our solar system has lots of water outside of the earth's oceans. 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