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Enchanted Learning® Photoblog Posted July 27, 2012 11:38 am

Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites

Jupiter and the four largest Jovian moons. These four satellites were discovered by Galileo, and possibly Simon Marius independently, in 1610.

From bottom left to top right: Callisto, Io, Jupiter, Ganymede, Europa. You can see dark-colored bands on Jupiter.

In this HDR (high dynamic range) composite image, the satellites look brighter and larger, relative to Jupiter, than they actually are.

The image above is the full-sized image; if you click for a larger picture, you'll see a double-sized digital zoom.

This photo was taken on July 26, 2012, at 10:51 UT.

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Date taken: July 26, 2012 Place taken: Mercer Island, WA, USA Mitchell Spector Copyright ©2012 Enchanted Learning, LLC	RELATED IMAGES The Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Venus, to Scale Venus and Jupiter over Lake Washington The Pleiades, Moon, Jupiter, Aldebaran, and Venus over Lake Washington Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites Jupiter and Saturn Jupiter and Its Moons, Together with Our Moon Jupiter 10/2/2012 Jupiter 10/7/2012 Jupiter in a Blue Sky Planetary Triangle over Seattle Planetary Peek-a-boo Venus and Jupiter - Conjunction of August 2014 Jupiter and Venus - Conjunction of July 2015 Jupiter and Saturn - Conjunction of December 2020