Whether it’s the most interesting, the most beautiful, or the strangest one for you, which is, in your opinion, the best moon in the Solar System?
Could it be the Earth’s own moon, being so large in comparison to the size of our Planet? Perhaps little Phobos and Deimos of Mars? The Galilean moons of Jupiter? Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and the only one in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere? Farther out, you have the moons of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto…
I was always partial to Miranda, Uranus’ closest moon. Despite having a diameter of only 470km, it features the tallest cliff in the solar system at 20km high!
Because Uranus “rolls” around the sun like a bowling ball instead of spinning like the other planets, Miranda revolves perpendicular to most other moons in the solar system. This causes some pretty crazy seasons: they last more than 20 years, often with the sun visible (or not) the entire time.
Also, a 2023 study found that there’s a good chance Miranda has a subsurface water ocean!