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

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 kilometres ... The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io; Europa; Ganymede; and Callisto, which were independently ...

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 ...

With the exception of Titan, however, Saturn's moons are much smaller than Jupiter's four large moons: Ganymede (the largest satellite in the Solar System), Callisto, Io and Europa, known collectively ...

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 ...