More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, looks like a boring, crater-filled world. It doesn’t seem to have much going on ...

Dave Dexter, composer of The Galilean Suite, four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the ...

Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 ... The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account for 99.997 ...

They should make a lovely pairing, with a pair of binoculars placed on Jupiter also revealing its four “Galilean” moons Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. Venus is still blazing away in the ...

We know those first four moons now as the Galilean moons ... Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, named for Jupiter's mythological mistresses. And until 1892, that was it! Just four moons, not ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. For nine years, a spacecraft ...

I recently saw a YouTube video by Hank Green discussing how important the Galilean moons are in our understanding of the solar system and the universe as a whole. The ...

The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io; Europa; Ganymede; and Callisto, which were independently discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius and were the first ...