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A montage of Jupiter and its four largest moons (distance and sizes not to scale) There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024. [1] [note 1] This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. [4]
Callisto (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ s t oʊ / kə-LIST-oh), or Jupiter IV, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede.In the Solar System it is the third-largest moon after Ganymede and Saturn's largest moon Titan, and nearly as large as the smallest planet Mercury.
Lysithea / l aɪ ˈ s ɪ θ i ə / is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson in 1938 at Mount Wilson Observatory [1] and is named after the mythological Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus and one of Zeus' lovers. [10] Lysithea did not receive its present name until 1975; before then, it was simply known ...
A mosaic image of Jupiter's moon Europa, obtained by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft, captured on Nov. 25, 1999. Europa Clipper will give researchers new insights via 49 close flybys ...
It's easy for Hubble to take pictures of Jupiter or its moons, but it only gets the chance to capture the planet on cam with three visible Galilean satellites once or twice a decade. That's what ...
The Juno probe will make flybys of three of Jupiter's moons thanks to a mission extension. NASA's Jupiter probe beams back first pictures of Ganymede Skip to main content
It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered, so it is also known as Jupiter V. It is also the fifth-largest moon of Jupiter, after the four Galilean moons. Edward Emerson Barnard discovered the moon on 9 September 1892 and named it after Amalthea of Greek mythology. [10]
Surface features of Jupiter's moons (5 C, 4 P) T. Thebe (moon) (2 P) Pages in category "Moons of Jupiter" The following 101 pages are in this category, out of 101 total.