Four iau listed dwarf planets are also known to have natural satellites.
Satellites of our solar system.
This simulated view of our solar system runs on real data.
Of the major spacecraft voyager 1 voyager 2 and new horizons are still functioning and are regularly contacted by radio communication while pioneer 10 and pioneer 11 are now derelict.
Iapetus small moon of saturn is just one example of the moons that cassini has visited up close during its decade long sojourn in the outer solar system.
Countless asteroids some with their own satellites.
Moons also known as natural satellites orbit planets and asteroids.
The solar system consists of the eight planets that orbit our sun and other celestial bodies such as moons comets asteroids minor planets and dust and gas.
The exploration of these moons is one of the pinnacle achievements in the space program.
8 planets with about 170 known planetary satellites.
This digital orrery a model of the solar system runs on a light mobile mobile friendly version of nasa s eyes on the solar system software.
The eight planets can be divided into two distinct categories on the basis of their densities mass per unit volume.
Below is a list of artificial objects leaving the solar system all of these objects are space probes and their upper stages launched by nasa.
Let s consider the satellites or moons of the planets in particular in the outer solar system.
And vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.
Sun is considered.
The solar system s planets and its most likely dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 219 natural satellites or moons.
Solar system solar system planets and their moons.
Pluto haumea makemake and eris.
Moons come in many shapes sizes and types.
Of these all are covered by a crust of ice except for earth s moon and io.
The four inner or terrestrial planets mercury venus earth and mars have rocky compositions and densities greater than 3 grams per cubic cm.
Solar system assemblage consisting of the sun and those bodies orbiting it.
The earth moon system is unique among planetary systems in that the ratio of the diameter of the moon to.
Comets and other icy bodies.
In the solar system there are six planetary satellite systems containing 205 known natural satellites.
There are more than 200 moons in our solar system.
Planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the sun.
Water has a density of 1 gram per cubic cm.
Welcome to nasa s eyes a way for you to learn about your home planet our solar system the universe beyond and the spacecraft exploring them.
As of september 2018 there are 334 other minor planets known to have moons.
The position of the planets moons and spacecraft are shown where they are right now.
19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded.
Several of the largest ones are in hydrostatic equilibrium and would therefore be considered dwarf planets or planets if they.
