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The moon really doesn't get enough love.

Of all of the features of the night sky,

it's the only one with real texture visible to the naked eye. Everything else is either

just a tiny, distant point or an overwhelming ball of fire. There's nothing else out there that

you can just sit and stare at and appreciate the feeling of looking through a gulf in space.

We are here on a rock in space, and there's another

whole rock right over there, so far away, yet so weirdly big that we can see it and see features

on it. It challenges the mind forcing you to come to grips with our cosmic context of

massive balls of rock spinning through

a dark ocean. And there's so much more that moons do. Moons tell us about the history of the

solar system and help reveal what's going on inside their planets. They have volcanoes and weird

colors and shoot jets of water into space, they might even harbor life.

Seeing Jupiter's moons is what led Galileo to understand the structure of our solar system.

And the thing that our moon has misled us about is their number.

Having one big fat moon is not normal.

Planets in our solar system have many moons,

so many fabulous moons. So on this episode, we're going to give moons the love they deserve.

Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary moon-alicious universe.

Hello, I'm Kelly Weider Smith. I study parasites and space, and I am not above jokes that involve mooning.

Hi, I'm Daniel.

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