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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
1 The discovery and significance of moons
Making use of moons
The naming of moons
How many moons?
Does the Earth have more than one moon?
Can moons have moons?
2 The Moon
Phases, orbit, and rotation
The face of the Moon
Impact craters
Craters and dating
Names of craters and maria
Mare basalts and regolith
Lunar exploration
The Moon’s origin
Water on the Moon
3 The Moon’s influence on us
Ocean tides
Eclipses
Orbital recession and day length
The Moon’s influence on human behaviour
The Moon and life on Earth
Moonbases and lunar resources
Who owns the Moon?
4 The moons of giant planets
Ice
Missions to moons
Jupiter’s regular satellites
Orbital resonance and tidal heating
Other regular satellites
Trojan moons
Irregular satellites
Inner moonlets
Rings and shepherd moons
5 Regular satellites in close up
Io
Europa
Ganymede and Callisto
Titan
Enceladus
Iapetus
Miranda
Ariel
Triton
Future missions
6 The moons of Mars: captured asteroids
Phobos
Deimos
Moons in the Martian sky
7 Moons of small bodies
Asteroids with moons
Centaurs with moons
Trans-Neptunian objects and their moons
8 Moons in other planetary systems: exomoons
Appendix: moons data
Further reading
Index
Social media
Online Catalogue
Planets
Stars
Black Holes
Cosmology
Astrophysics
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