ZERO. Mercury has no\nmoon as it\u2019s closest to the Sun. <\/strong>The sun\u2019s gravity makes it impossible for\nMercury to have a moon. Even if it ended up having a moon, the moon will\neventually end up being pulled into the sun or would be pulled into the planet.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\nVenus<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\nAgain ZERO. <\/strong>Venus\ndoes not have any moon and science is yet to find any specific reason for this.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\nEarth<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\nWith just one moon,\nEarth is the first planet from the sun which has a moon.<\/strong> We only see one\nside of the moon because it takes the same time to rotate around its axis as it\ntakes to revolve around the Earth. There are several craters and mountains on\nEarth\u2019s moon. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMars<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\nMars has two moons \u2013\nPhobos and Deimos.<\/strong> They were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall. Both the\nmoons are irregular in shape with Phobos being larger than Deimos. Phobos has a\ndiameter of 22km and orbits Mars on the inner orbit while Deimos is 12km in\ndiameter and it takes over 30 hours to orbit Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJupiter<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\nJupiter is believed to\nhave 79 moons.<\/strong> Only 53 of these have received an official name and four of\nthese moons are special to scientists. These four moons are called the Galilean\nmoons since their discovery is attributed to Galileo Galilei who discovered\nthem in 1610. They are named Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Ganymede is\nthe largest moon in the solar system with its size being bigger than Mercury. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSaturn<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nThere are 53 moons <\/strong>that\norbit Saturn which have been officially named. Nine more moons await\nconfirmation. The biggest moon orbiting the planet is Titan\u2019 the second largest\nmoon in the solar system. It has its own atmosphere which is unlike the other\nmoons in the solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUranus<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n27 moons have been\ndiscovered so far, orbiting Uranus. <\/strong>The first two moons were discovered in\n1787 by William Herschel. All of Uranus\u2019 moons are named after characters from\nShakespeare\u2019s works and the works of Alexander Pope. This makes them different\nfrom the rest of the moons which are named after the mythical characters. <\/p>\n\n\n\nNeptune<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nNeptune has 14 moons which have been confirmed and named. There\nmay be more which are yet to be discovered. William Lassel discovered the first\nmoon of the planet. It is named Triton and is the biggest moon orbiting\nNeptune. It is bigger than some of the dwarf planets and orbits Neptune in the\nopposite direction to the planet\u2019s rotation. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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