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 ...

The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope at the Moon, Venus and the planet Jupiter in quick ...

Jupiter's largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 and are significant for their unique ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Europa, one of Jupiter's Galilean moons, hosts a liquid ocean beneath a frozen shell. Because of its proximity to Jupiter, the moon is constantly hit with radiation that erodes its icy surface ...

Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres ... The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account ...

All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io; Europa; Ganymede; and Callisto, which were independently ...

now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also the ...

You’re looking at its four Galilean Moons, by far the largest of the giant ... with his image showing Europa and its shadow, Ganymede and its shadow, Callisto, and Io in partial eclipse.

Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons orbiting the gas giant. And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

An abstract film that imagines the icy hatched-marked world of Jupiter's moon, Europa. This is the first in a four-part series dedicated to filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The soundtrack consists of ...