What If The Planets Became Earth's Moons

 The Moon is the Earth's closest space neighbour and it's only natural satellite. It likely formed when a huge Mars-sized object crashed into our planet billions of years ago, but I wasn't around that though...this event turned Earth into a scorching ball of molten rock. It also pushed something in its orbit, creating the Moon. Now, this heavily cratered sphere moves around our planet. This causes high and low tides around the world. Moon is a bit more than one-fourth the size of Earth. It is the fifth largest natural satellite in the solar system after Ganymede, Titan, Callisto and IO. It has some phases like - New moon, No moon, Crescent moon, first and last quarter. But whatever it looks like, we can find it in the night sky and sometimes even in the day. But, imagine that one day you get up from the bed and you see that the moon looks somewhat different than usual...it seems brighter and bigger. You don't even realise that it is not moon anymore, Its Mercury!

Close up, this planet is the nearest to the Sun which is similar to our natural satellite. It's surface is littered with craters left by space rocks. Mercury is about two-fifth the size of Earth but is still bigger than Moon. Thats why the planet would have a greater influence on Earth. Nights would become brighter, High tides would become higher and...low tides, Hmm, what do you think...Lower? That is correct. The lunar cycle, thats the time the Moon or rather Mercury now, needs to go through all the phases and it would become 14 hours shorter. But all in such a replacement wouldn't have any drastic consequences for our planet. But then, how about Venus?

It is also known as the Earth's "Sister Planet" because thier mass and size are nearly same.It is the 3rd brightest object after the Sun and Moon. Venus would be as large in our sky as Earth once appeared to the Apollo astronauts. The morning star would be much brighter than moon for one thing that the planet reflects 6 times more sunlight and it would occupy 16 times more area than Moon. That's why the nights would be as bright as the early Twilight now. If you looked at Venus vague swirling patterns in the planet yellowish-white cloud cover. Venus woudn't become Earth's satellite. They would likely orbit around thier common centre of mass and this orbit would be quite eccentric. But if Venus moves with the same speed as Moon has, they would crash into each other in the nearest future...uh-oh!

Okay lets pull another switcheroo, if Mars was up there instead of the Moon, you would surely notice it. The planets disk would make it look "Radish"...oops sorry, lets make that "Reddish" and it would be almost the twice of Moons size. Even without a telescope, you would be able to observe at its unusual colour and dark spots on its surface. Mars is half of Earth's size...but replacing a much smaller body with a large body would upset the delicate balance on Earth. Massive waves would rise in the oceans under Martian influence. Mars would be reflecting more sunlight than the Moon. Nights would be lighter. Terrestrial landscapes would have an eerie red tint. You would also be able to admire the largest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons

Okay now think really big! How about Jupiter? As an independent planet, Earth would'nt exist anymore. It would instantly turn into a Moon of Jupiter. The only positive moment in this transformation is that the people would have an awesome view. Jupiter is dozens of times larger than Moon. If you had time to enjoy the show, you'd see yellow, brown, red and white clouds floating in Jupiters atmosphere. Sadly, the planets gravitational pull would cause severe earthquakes and tsunami's. Earths mantle and crust would be drawn towards Jupiter. Well that sounds unpleasent...lets not do that.

Then what about Saturn? If it replaced the Moon...it would be a sight to behold. It is more than 35 times the moons area. You would see the rings of Saturn stretch even further, from Horizon to horizon. Earth would be a further away from the gas giant...and a little bit closer to Dione, one of Saturns moon. Unfortunately, Earth's rotational speed would'nt be able to catch up and it would most likely lean towards Saturn and blast. But what if this scenario didn't happen? What if it does not crash and become Saturns 54th Moon? If that would happen then the gas giants gravitational pull would lead to massive tectonic plates shift all over our globe . Not good either... well what about Neptune and Uranus which are ice giants? They are larger than Earth and Moon though they are not bigger than Saturn and Jupiter. Well we know what would happen next... so lets not do that.

Well that was it from my side. What do you think about these planets? Think and imagine about it.

Thank you!
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