Professional Documents
Culture Documents
22 Jupiter-Moons
22 Jupiter-Moons
a.
b.
Inner moons closer to Jupiter than Io
Amalthea
Jupiter’s Galilean Satellites – Worlds of their
own!
To Jupiter
Sizes of some of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter
Jupiter’s moon Io,
volcanologically the
most active body in
our Solar System.
1.) Color - sulfur!
2.) Albedo - 63 %
1,300 km wide
600 km high
Plumes seen on limb and as shadows on surface
Limb view
Plume shadow
Long lava flows at Ra Patera > 100 km long
Lava flows on Io
Examples of lava lakes at Kilauea, 1988
Where does the heat come from on Io?
Tidal heating from Jupiter, Europa and Ganymede
Interior of Io; density = 3.55 gm/cc
Iron-rich core
To Jupiter
Europa: 3,138 km diameter; density 3.04 gm/cc
Ideas for a frozen interior for Europa
Ideas for a liquid interior for Europa
How do we get heat into the interior of Europa?
• Tidal heating.
Europa is tugged
towards Jupiter, but is
also pulled away from
Jupiter by Io,
Ganymede and
Callisto.
Silicate lower
Ice crust mantle
Callisto: Diameter 4,800 km, density 1.86 gm/cc
Thousands of craters at all scales on Callisto
Valhalla basin - ~600 km in diameter
Details of a “ring” of Valhalla Basin
Magnetometer data give clue to interior of Callisto
Solid rock-ice