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What is the largest moon in the solar system?
Ganymede
This moon is known as the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
Io
This moon is known as the most heavily cratered object in the solar system
Callisto
This is the only large moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit
Triton
Strongest candidate for extraterrestrial life due to global subsurface ocean beneath an icy crust
Europa
Only celestial body humans have visited beyond Earth
Moon aka Luna
Has the thickest atmosphere of any moon
Titan
This moon's ice volcanoes spout what is probably a mixture of liquid nitrogen, methane, and dust, which instantly freezes and then snows back down to the surface.
Triton
It is the sole other place in the solar system known to have an earthlike cycle of liquids similar the water cycle
Titan
The only moon known to have its own magnetic field
Ganymede
The third largest moon in our solar system and about the same size as Mercury
Callisto
This moon looks like it’s sprinkled with bright white dots that scientists think are the peaks of the craters capped with water ice.
Callisto
Three of the largest moons in the solar system belong to this planet
Jupiter
Name Jupiter's three moons
Ganymede, Callisto, and Io
This moon's water-ice surface is crisscrossed by dark, reddish-brown cracks.
Europa
