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The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, which are named for minor water deities and a water creature in Greek mythology. By far the largest of them is Triton, discovered by William Lassell on October 10, 1846, 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. Over a century passed before the discovery of the second natural satellite, Nereid, in ...
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin but well-structured atmosphere. Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit —an orbit in the direction opposite to its planet's rotation—the only large moon in the Solar System to ...
19.7 [10] Proteus ( / ˈproʊtiəs / PROH-tee-əs ), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second-largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite. Discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology. [11] Proteus orbits Neptune in a nearly equatorial orbit at a distance of about 4 ...
Galatea (moon) Galatea / ɡæləˈtiːə /, also known as Neptune VI, is the fourth-closest inner moon of Neptune. It is named after Galatea, one of the fifty Nereids of Greek legend, with whom Cyclops Polyphemus was vainly in love.
Nereid, or Neptune II, is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has the most eccentric orbit of all known moons in the Solar System. [4] It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
Temperature. ~51 K mean (estimate) Apparent magnitude. 21.5 [13] Larissa, also known as Neptune VII, is the fifth-closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Larissa, a lover of Poseidon (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Neptune ). Larissa is also the eponymous nymph of the city in Thessaly, Greece .
Temperature. ~51 K mean (estimate) Apparent magnitude. 22.0 [6] Despina / dɛˈspaɪnə /, also known as Neptune V, is the third-closest inner moon of Neptune. It is named after Greek mythological character Despoina, a nymph who was a daughter of Poseidon and Demeter .
Surface features of Neptune's moons (4 P) T. Triton (moon) (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Moons of Neptune"