Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar Options

[Exploitcorporati...]

Yes, it's time to Rock the Inner Geek and proclaim your love for what you consider to be what's hot and what's...well, boring in terms of planetary excitement. Criteria may include dynamicism, color, scale, grandeur, crater-counting wrist torture, budgetary reality, and whatever else you might consider relevant. I'll open with my own picks, without giving any particular reasons. (Earth can count if you like)

In descending order...

Most Interesting:

1.) Io
2.) Titan
3.) Europa
4.) Enceladus
5.) Mars
6.) Triton
7.) Venus
8.) Pluto
9.) Dione
10. Iapetus


Least Interesting:

1.) Rhea
2.) Luna
3.) Mercury
4.) Oberon
5.) Mimas
6.) Tethys
7.) Callisto
8.) Ganymede
9.) Earth
10.) New Jersey

[Rob Pinnegar]

Well, here we go.

Most interesting: Titan, Mars, Io, Europa, Triton, Saturn's rings, Iapetus, Enceladus, Miranda, Venus.
honorable mention: Hyperion, Ganymede, Ariel, Luna, Vesta (#11-15)

Least inspiring: Rhea, Tethys, Oberon, Umbriel, Uranus, Mercury, Saturn proper, Mimas, Ceres, Dione.

And making up a new category:

Most interesting *for its size*: Hyperion, with Enceladus and Miranda close behind (Phobos, too).

Least interesting *for its size*: Saturn. Something with 95 Earth masses can do better. Uranus is a close second, though.

[ugordan]

Least interesting *for its size*: Saturn. Something with 95 Earth masses can do better. Uranus is a close second, though.

You can't blame the planet for high altitude hazes obscuring interesting cloud dynamics. Blame the temperature!

For me, I can't really select favorite places in the solar system because each of the places is unique, but I can select a random few I find boring less interesting (mostly from an aspect of "wow, nothing interesting happened here for ages AND it's visually dull (i.e. no color variation whatsoever)"), in no particular order:

Moon, Mercury, Mimas, Rhea, Uranus (though the equinox did bring some life to it). Tethys and Dione.. well, they're also dull, but Dione has a dark stain and "wispy" terrain and Tethys has the orangish splat so from an imaging standpoint it pulls them out of the brink for me. There's also a few Uranian moons I find less than awe-inspiring but at least they're brownish in color!