Jupiter's Galilean Satellites
Depicts: Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter
Copyright: K. Noll (STScI), J. Spencer (Lowell Observatory), and NASA
Located approximately one-half billion miles away, the moons are so small that, in visible light, they appear as fuzzy disks in the largest ground-based telescopes. Hubble can resolve surface details seen previously only by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
