Jovian Moons
Across
- 2. one of the large galilean moons this icey covered moon looks very similar to our own moon in that it is covered with filled in craters. The difference here is that it is melted ices, not rocky lava that fill the craters.
- 4. This small icy moon has constant active cryovolcanoes and is responsible for suppling the material for Saturn's E ring
- 6. The largest moon in the solar system this moon has never had any activity. The only processes that has ever occurred is impact cratering
- 8. This small moons looks like it could be the inspiration for star wars famous Evil space stations
- 10. many of Uranus's moons are named after characters from this famous writer
- 12. The most active object in the solar system, this tiny moon has over 400 active volcanoes.
- 14. this moon has two faces, a light and dark. It is not clear to scientists what the cause is yet
- 15. This moon has a surface that looks like a cantaloupe. In other areas, material ejected from active volcanoes on the surface are pulled by high winds
Down
- 1. the amount of time it takes if you call off of a cliff on miranda to hit the ground
- 3. Just recently this icy ocean covered moon was found to be active with small water geysers shooting up from the surface. Although the surface looks like a patchwork quilt of ice, the moon itself has an iron core surrounded by rocky material.
- 5. Volcanoes that spew ices and water instead of lava and soot.
- 7. a moon that does not form with its planet but is considered captured
- 8. A heavily scarred moon of URANUS with large mountains and cliffs and canyons. These canyons are over twelve times as deep as the grand canyon.
- 9. A small asteroid-esk moon with a surface that looks like a sea-sponge or coral
- 11. This water ice and CO2 ice surface moon is slightly redish in hue. Large old canyons/cracks can be seen on the surface. This moon looks very similar to its sister moon Oberon.
- 13. A moon of saturn with methane lakes dotting its surface and evidence of a methane cycle similar to our water cycle on earth