Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account for 99.997 percent of the total mass of Jupiter ...

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 ...

There are 79 known moons of Jupiter, not counting a number of moonlets likely shed from the inner moons, and S/2003 J 24, whose orbital elements have not yet been published. All together, they form a ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...

Point them at Jupiter tonight—or any night during its bright opposition month—and you’ll notice four bright, white dots either side of it. You’re looking at its four Galilean Moons ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter ...

Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and has made over 60 orbits of the giant planet, but for the past few years it has been edging closer and making fly-bys of the large Galilean moons. On Dec.

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minut ...

NASA created an incredible visualization of the orbits of 64 of Jupiter's moons. First you see the four innermost small moons, then the Galilean moons. Then, zooming out from the planet ...

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 ...

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 known as ...

Get ready, Jupiter is about to put on an awesome sky show. On Sept. 26, the giant planet will be closer and brighter than it has been for the last 59 years. This fact has not escaped the attention ...