Jupiter page

The Great Red Spot  Jupiter has 63 moons at last count (8/31/06) and one of its moon is the larges in the solar system.  It is the moon named Ganymede and is over 3000 miles in diameter.

  The interior of Ganymede is thought to consist of a rocky core about the size of our Moon and to be surrounded by a thick covering of ice roughly equal in mass.

Another moon of Jupiter is named IO and has volcanoes all over its surface.

                                        A volcanic explosion can be seen silhouetted against dark space.

These images of the inner Jovian moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis (left to right), taken in January, 2000, by the Galileo spacecraft, are the highest resolution images ever obtained of these small, irregularly shaped satellites

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