travels
jupiter: It’s Time to Start Your Adventures
In orbit around Jupiter, Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system
The Great Red Spot is Jupiter’s largest surface feature, a swirling red oval storm twice the size of Earth.
The largest moon to orbit Jupiter, and simply the largest moon in the solar system, is covered up in an icy shell.
mars: It’s Time to Start Your Adventures
Behold the largest skating rink in the solar system. The ice within this crater is a permanent feature.
Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the solar system, stretching for 600 km.
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. It is 700 km across and rises 22 km above the surrounding Tharsis plain.
The largest recognized impact basin in the solar system, Utopia Planitia features a crater that stretches about 3,300 km across Mars’ northern plains.
saturn: It’s Time to Start Your Adventures
Titan has a large equatorial desert called the Shangri-la Land Sea, and it features an impressive network of sand dunes.
Near the north pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies a vast sea Kraken Mare, named after the legendary sea monster, the Kraken.
The ringed beauty Saturn is host to a wide variety of wonderful moons. And two of its potato-shaped satellites have a unique arrangement.
The rings of Saturn are one of the most distinct planetary features in the solar system.
saturn, uranus, mercury, venus:
It’s Time to Start Your Adventures
The brightest moon of Saturn, Enceladus, has a smooth, almost featureless surface covered with ice.
The ice giant Uranus’ moon Miranda is a spelunkers dream – its jagged surface is replete with canyons, scarps, terraced outcrops.
The basin is surrounded by Mercury’s highest mountains, towering 3 km above the plains and many lava vents.
Venus’s most terrifying feature – its atmosphere. Clouds race across the planet at speeds reaching 360 km per hour, blowing from east to west.
neptune, pluto: It’s Time to Start Your Adventures
Visitors to the largest of Neptune’s moons, Triton, will be treated to an array of cryogeysers that are composed of nitrogen frost.
The planet Pluto has so many fascinating features on it that we should call it a wonder in its own right.