4 WEIRDEST Moons In The Solar System! (Knowledge Box #6)

The coolest and weirdest moons in the Solar System are just waiting for us to go and explore. Our small celestial neighbourhood is home to a multitude of incredible worlds that we can't even imagine. You want an immensely volcanic lump of iron? A liquid ocean deeper than any ocean on Earth? A lump of rock and ice straight out of Star Wars? You got it. Space is home to some pretty cool stuff, and I want start with its most neighbourly moons.

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Read

Tidal Heating Of Moons: http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/agso/tidal_force_presentation.pdf

Life On Europa?: http://www.space.com/26905-jupiter-moon-europa-alien-life.html

Theories On Moon Formation: http://www.space.com/19275-moon-formation.html

Watch

Tidal Heating (Teach Astronomy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NIms7Q4C0

Europa: Ocean World (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk

We're Going To Europa! (SciShow Space): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVAb2DzTSU

Uranus & Neptune: Crash Course Astronomy #19 (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIwD17Crko

Jupiter's Moons: Crash Course Astronomy #17 (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFaf7vbgpE

Wikipedias

Mimas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)

Io: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)

Miranda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(moon)

Europa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)

The Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

Theia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)

Tidal Heating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating

Galilean Moons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons

William Herschel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

Gerard Kuiper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kuiper

Galileo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

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