What are your thoughts on this moon from Saturn called Methone?

That's because it's a gas dwarf.

>>8742454

Probably another comet captured into orbit.

>>8742454

What kind of atmosphere could be heavy enough to stay on such tiny object?

>>8742464

Don't know. Ask Saturn's other moon Titan.

>>8742454
Snow can hide craters

>>8742454
>called Methone?
That a bunch of junkies named it.

>>8742454
That's because it's an egg.
Any meteorite hit would have shattered it.
Which means it was laid not so long ago.

>>8742454
It's one of the protomolecule delivery vehicles, so naturally it is self repairing.

>>8742454
How close is it to Methtwo?

>>8742454
Looks like it is right in there tight with the rings -- if the rings are made of small enough particle, I wonder if it is basically being constantly polished by micro impacts.

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So many people hold the perspective that there's only nine planets and not many terrestrial.. there's a shitton of round, giant terrestrial worlds that are interesting as hell.

It doesn't make us any less lonely but it certainly shows how crowded this place is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

>>8742677
http://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2017/02/22/proposed_planet_definition_means_solar_system_has_110_planets.html

Pluto will be avenged.

>>8742677
Venus where?

>>8742677
>>8742693

>Trappist 1 has seven terrestrial planets
>Nerdgasms everywhere,

actually it has an infinite amount of craters so it evens out

>>8742677

There are only 8 planets in our solar system

As you said, being a planet is not a prerequisite to being interesting or complex.

>>8742469

Titan is far from the sun and cold, which means the molecules of its atmosphere are moving slowly, which means relatively few of them reach escape velocity, which means titan has held onto a significant atmosphere for a very long time. Titan's atmosphere is almost completely made of nitrogen, with a small amount of methane and other small hydrocarbons acting similarly to how water acts in our atmosphere. UV light from the sun interacts with this mixture and produces a brown haze of more complex organic molecules in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

>>8742454
that's just an egg

>>8742454
it's fluffy. I want to touch it!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23560-astrophile-saturns-egg-moon-methone-is-made-of-fluff/

>>8743055

I bet you're the sort of guy who is just drowning in pussy

>>8743131
Not wholesome dude. Not wholesome at all. :^(

>>8743131
That was a good explanation no need to be a dick

>>8742596
Nah the aliens were to lazy to send more than one rock and the Mickies blew up Phoebe.

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>>8743131

What, do you think i'm some sort of faggot?

>>8742454
>Methone
not my favourite drug

>>8742677
Callisto confirmed for most qt moon

>>8743974
Methone is believed to be fluffy though which is why it doesn't have any craters

>>8743750

That guy wasn't really looking for an explanation shit-for-brains.

>>8742469

Titan's huge compared to that blob though.

Why are non-artistic interpretation images of moons in such low detail and black and white?

>>8742454
Why should I give a shift?

>>8744405
>black and white?
How do you know that? Also many cameras on space probes can only produce color images by using color filters and combinig multiple image, making a b/w one is much easier
>such low detail
Because Cassini didn't really get near to it

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>>8744058
consider suicide

Hurr how come this moon guarded by this golden fat motherfucker eating up niggas got no dere scratches kleetus???

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>>8744629

> no u

>>8742576

Kek

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>>8744405

they aren't always.

>>8742677
Shit, Mars is actually that small compared to Earth?

>>8742576
What will hatch from it?

>>8742698
Venus is slightly smaller than Earth. It's like 94-5% of the Earth.

>>8742677
I consider roughly Pluto sized to be the cutoff point for being one of the cool guys. Everyone around that size or bigger have some cool gimmicks and personality, if you go smaller you just end up with lots of literally whos.

>>8745313
Earth: 1g
Venus: 0.91g
Mars: 0.38g

Yeah, pretty fucking small, however, there's no oceans so there's a shitload of landmass.

Surface area of Mars: 145 million km/sq
Land Surface area of Earth: 148 million km/sq
Land Surface area of Venus: 460 million km/sq

>>8742454
No I'm not surprised there are no craters. Why would there be craters on the business end of an unused tampon?

>>8745436
Yes, but why was it left off the chart?

>>8745578
How can Martian planetlets even hope to compete?

Since its continually blasted with ring material that disrupts the surface, no.

>>8742454
Dimensions 3.9x2.6x2.4 km. Density about one third of water. Wouldn't survive impact. Alien base I'd say.

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It's the White Moon.

>>8742605
Underrated

>>8743979
Wtf are you talking about