Sunday, February 23, 2020

List of gravitationally rounded moons in the Solar System

This post is a list of the 19 gravitationally rounded moons in the Solar System. In total, there are 219 known moons in our Solar System (14 of which orbit dwarf planets). For each planet below, I listed the moons according to size. The diameter of each moon is also provided. Source: Wikipedia

Mercury (0 total)


Venus (0 total)


Earth (1 total)


Moon - 3,474 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, George H. Revera
License: CC BY-SA 3.0



Mars (2 total)


Jupiter (79 total)


Ganymede - 5,268 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and JPL



Callisto - 4,816 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and DLR



Io - 3,636 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and University of Arizona



Europa - 3,120 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and DLR



Saturn (82 total)


Titan - 5,150 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA



Rhea - 1,528 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and Space Science Institute



Iapetus - 1,468 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and Space Science Institute



Dione - 1,124 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA



Tethys - 1,072 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, JPL and Space Science Institute



Enceladus - 504 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and JPL



Mimas - 396 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA



Uranus (27 total)


Titania - 1,576 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and JPL



Oberon - 1,522 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA



Umbriel - 1,168 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab



Ariel - 1,156 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and JPL



Miranda - 470 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA and JPL-Caltech



Neptune (14 total)


Triton - 2,706 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab and U.S. Geological Study



Pluto (5 total)


Charon - 1,212 km
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute and Alex Parker