| Jupiter, the giant planet. |
Jupiter's satellites and ringsJupiter and its satellites are famous, there are 39 known. The four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are the biggest of all Jupiter's moons; there are 12 smaller ones, named after other figures in the life of Zeus and 23 more recently discovered but not yet named or confirmed.
Jupiter has rings but faint and smaller than Saturn's and unlike them they're dark. Their composition is different from Saturn's rings composition and they seem to contain no ice and they probably have small grains of rock. The following data shows the name of the rings and the distance from Jupiter's core to the ring's inner edge and its mass. Halo 1000000 km ? Main 122800 km 1e13 Gossamer 129200 km ? The ring system starts at about 92,000 km from the planet's core, and extends out to 250,000 km approximately. |
Jupiter, the giant planet.

