Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Jupiter and the Galilean moons

By popular demand Jupiter makes an entrance as the fourth release from the Fyfe atelier. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun is the largest in the solar system.  Although it has sixty-four known moons/satellites only the four "Galilean moons" are represented.  They are each around 3,100km in diameter. The largest being bigger than Mercury. The others are less than 250km in diameter or .25% of Jupiter's 88,700km. and at this scale could not be seen.  Ganymede, the largest moon is third in orbit, Io is the first and is followed by Europa which is the second largest.Callisto, the most distant of the four is also the smallest.

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