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OneOfOne
14-04-2011, 11:30 AM
I have compiled a list of what I consider the 12 "best" moons, I would be interested to see if you agree or would have a different list. Funny how half of them belong to Saturn! I didn't include the Moon because it is just a big source of light pollution :mad2:

Europa - the ice is pretty cool, the best
Titan - wow, that atmosphere, "I love the smell of methane in the morning"
Iapetus - even though I am not a Collingwood suporter
Enceladus - gott love those stripes
Io - who doesn't love pizza
Hyperion - a moon that looks like a sponge, OMG
Triton - love those ol' geysers
Phoebe - so tiny, yet it created it's own ring
Prometheus - someone has to keep the rings in order
Ganymede - you have to love the big guy
Miranda - she took a battering, but she still came out round
Phobos - the Russians like it enough to go there

Pity you can't see any detail on these from here.

overlord
20-04-2011, 10:23 AM
There is some detail to be seen but the disk is so tiny it's really difficult to ask one's brain whether or not the detail is imagined or real. I made drawings of Ganymede/IO as well as Titan... for instance, last night I thought I saw that one quadrant of Titan is more detailed than other so I drew one quarter darker and that was my picture of Titan for the night, lol. But of course Saturn takes precedence.