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Jupiter's Moons

Jupiter has a large stable of terrestrial moons, and are organized into an orderly system of four dissimilar groups, each compromised of four similar-sized moons orbiting in distinctly different places. The Inner Group were discovered by the Voyager project (except for Amalthea). The second group were discovered by Galileo. The third and fourth groups were discovered in the twentieth century before the Voyager project.

 

 

 

JUPITER'S MOONS
MOON DISCOVERY AND DATE DIAMETER (KM) DISTANCE FROM JUPITER (KM)
Metis Project Voyager, 1979 49 127,600
Adrastea Project Voyager, 1979 35 134,000
Amalthea Edward Barnard, 1882 166 181,300
Thebe Project Voyager, 1979 75 222,000
Io Galileo Galilei, 1610 3632 421,600
Europa Galileo Galilei, 1610 3126 670,900
Ganymede Galileo Galilei, 1610 5276 1,100,000
Callisto Galileo Galilei, 1610 4820 1,900,000
Leda Charles Kowall, 1974 8 11,100,000
Himalia CD Perrine, 1904 179 11,500,000
Lysithea SB Nicholson, 1938 19 11,700,000
Elara CD Perrine, 1905 80 11,700,000
Ananke SB Nicholson, 1951 17 20,700,000
Carme SB Nicholson, 1938 24 22,400,000
Pasiphae PJ Melotta, 1908 27 23,300,000
Sinope PJ Melotta, 1914 21 23,700,000