- Jupiter's Moons - NASA's Solar System Exploration
Offers profiles for 63 of Jupiter's moons, with more in-depth articles about Jupiter's four largest moons -- Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Moons
- Satellites of Jupiter
Describes how Galileo discovered Jupiter's moons.
es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/jupiter_satellites.html
- Juplet
Applet shows the positions of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, their shadows, and the Great Red Spot.
www.shallowsky.com/jupiter.html
- Jupiter's New Satellites
Findings from University of Hawaii astronomers: eleven moons for Jupiter discovered late 2000.
www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/jmoons/jmoons.html
- Enchanted Learning: Jupiter's Moons
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/jupiter/moons.shtml
- Chasing the Moons of Jupiter
Sky & Telescope article that includes a JavaScript utility to help you identify the moons of Jupiter in your telescope's eyepiece.
www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html
- Cornell News: Galileo Images of Jupiter's Inner Moons
Features three of the planet's four innermost moons, Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis.
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/April00/Simonelli.moons.deb.html
- Jovian Moons, The
Details the features of the four largest moons, all named after mythological Jupiter's lovers.
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jovian_moons/jovian_moons.html
- Checking Greenwich Time Using Jupiter's Moons
From the U. S. Corps Of Topographical Engineers.
www.topogs.org/jupiter.htm
- Galilean Satellites and Kepler's Laws, The
Online exercise for understanding the orbits of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
jersey.uoregon.edu/tmp/orbits.html
- Jupiter's Moons - Journey Through the Galaxy
Offers a brief description of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io.
filer.case.edu/~sjr16/jupiter_moons.html
- Voyager and Galileo Global Mosaics of Jovian Satellites
Images and reports from the USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/JupiterSatellites
- Small Satellites of Jupiter - NSSDC Photo Gallery
Includes images of Jupiter's moons Amalthea, Thebe, and Metis.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-jupsmallsats.html
- Jupiter's Moons - The Planetary Society
Info about Jupiter's 63 moons, including diameter and distance from Jupiter, and some photos.
www.planetary.org/explore/topics/our_solar_system/jupiter/moons.html
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