What are your top 3 moons?

[DMSP]

Hi guys, What are your top 3 moons?

Mine are:

Enceladus

Europa

and Io

Also should this be under the "spaceflight" tag?

[ZedNova]

Our moon, Titan, and Mimas.

[Ikaneko]

Enceladus (One time I wrote Enchiladas while taking notes in a lecture: man I was hungry!!)

Titan (Natural gas moon?? Titan - prepare to get liberated!!)

Our moon (That's no moon, it's a *gets slapped*)

[Godot]

Io, Titan, Europa

[Uncle Mort]

Io, Titan and Miranda

[Helix935]

Titan, Europa, Ganymede

[LABHOUSE]

Europa.

Titan.

Charon.

[Bill Phil]

Charon is more of a companion object, not much of a moon.

Iapetus, Callisto, Ganymede

[Drunken Hobo]

Europa.

Titan.

Charon.

Europan Heathen. The true path is:

Enceladus.

Titan.

Charon.

[lajoswinkler]

Triton, Io, Titan

Iapetus is cool, too.

[cantab]

Damn that's a tough one.

Anyway, our Moon, definitely. Not because it's the most intrinsically interesting, but because you can look at it yourself through a modest telescope and it really comes alive as another world, filling the field of view. It's the only thing that does; the Sun doesn't really have terrain as such, and all the other planets are too far away.

Titan. Another easy choice, with its thick atmosphere and active methane cycle, and the whole flying thing.

The third choice, though, that's tough. I will get one thing out of the way: not Europa. It's been hyped up as a possible home of life, but it's become increasingly apparent that it's far from unique in having a subsurface ocean. The extraordinarily distinctive Miranda, once thought to be shattered and reformed but that may owe its features to its own geology.

So, Io with its intense vulcanism? Ganymede because it's lolhueg, well and that intruiging two-tone surface. "That's no moon" Mimas? Enceladus with its geysers? Janus and Epimetheus (OK that's two) in their delicate co-orbital dance? The yin-yang of Iapetus and its equatorial ridge, a moon readers of 2001 will remember well. Triton, the largest irregular satellite in the solar system and with unusual terrain? It's so hard to choose!

But I think I'm going to go with Hyperion. It just looks so weird with its spongelike texture, there truly is nothing else even remotely like it. It's also the only large(ish) body to not have a definite rotation axis, instead tumbling chaotically. If you were to visit, you literally wouldn't know where the equator would be until you got there.

[Whirligig Girl]

My top three are Earth's Moon, Europa, and my moon which orbits my head. Also Titan.

[bsalis]

Europa, Titan, Io.

[PakledHostage]

Europa, Titan, Io.

Maybe this belongs in the bad jokes thread, but I'm struck by the idea that the first robotic mission to Io should be called the "Seven Dwarfs Mission"... You know, Io, Io, it's off to work I go?

[cricket, cricket, cricket]

I'll show myself out.

[SmartS=true]

Enceladus, Triton, and Europa.

[Nemrav]

Enceladus, Triton, and Europa.

you troll, you were meant to put Titan there...

Titan, 2006 RH120, Vanth

[Wanderfound]

No love for Mimas?

Other than that, Minmus and Laythe.

[cantab]

2006 RH120

That's no moon...any more.

[Skylab]

Titan, Europa, Ganymede. I'm not at all surprised that Titan and Europa are many people's favorites.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Skylab