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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 |
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