Planet |
|
Number of Moons |
Names of Some of the Moons |
Mercury |
|
0 |
|
Venus |
|
0 |
|
Earth |
|
1 |
The Moon (sometimes called Luna) |
Mars |
|
2 |
Phobos, Deimos |
Jupiter |
|
63 |
Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, Sinope, Callirrhoe, Themisto, Megaclite, Taygete, Chaldene, Harpalyke, Kalkye |
Saturn |
|
61 |
Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan, Ymir, Paaliaq |
Uranus |
|
27 |
Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Perdita, Cupid, Francisco, Stephano, Margaret |
Neptune |
|
13 |
Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Psamathe, Sao, Laomedeia, Neso |
The four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Calisto, and Ganymede—were discovered by Galileo in 1610.