Which is the only moon in the solar system with atmosphere?
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System ("Venera 3"), Mars in 1971 ("Mars 3", although a fully successful landing didn't occur until "Viking 1" in 1976), the asteroid 433 Eros in 2001 ("NEAR Shoemaker"), and Saturn's moon Titan ("Huygens") and the comet Tempel 1 ("Deep Impact") in 2005. The "Galileo" orbiter also dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995; because Jupiter has no physical surface, it was destroyed by increasing temperature and pressure as it descended. To date, only two worlds in the Solar System, the Moon and Mars, have been visited by mobile rovers. The first robotic rover to visit another celestial body was the
Atmosphere of the Moon Atmosphere of the Moon The atmosphere of the Moon is a very scant presence of gases surrounding the Moon. For most practical purposes, the Moon is considered to be surrounded by vacuum. The elevated presence of atomic and molecular particles in its vicinity compared to interplanetary medium, referred to as "lunar atmosphere" for scientific objectives, is negligible in comparison with the gaseous envelopes surrounding Earth and most planets of the Solar System. The pressure of this small mass is around , varying throughout the day, and in total weighs less than 10 metric tonnes. Otherwise, the Moon is considered not