![]() ![]() It is in a retrograde orbit which moves in the opposite direction of Jupiter. Carme has a mass of 9 x 10 16kg and orbits Jupiter in 692 Earth days. It has a diameter of 30 km (18.5 miles) and orbits at a distance of 22,600,000 km (13,800,000 miles) from Jupiter. Carmeĭiscovered in 1938 by Charles Nicholson, Carme is the fourteenth moon of Jupiter. It is named after Ananke, the mother of Adrastea by Zeus, in Greek mythology. The moon is also in a retrograde orbit – which means it orbits in the opposite direction of Jupiter. The moon has a mass of 4 x 10 16kg and it take Ananke 631 Earth days to orbit Jupiter. Ananke has a diameter of 20 km (12.5 miles) and orbits 21,200,000 km (13,100,000 miles) from Jupiter. AnankeĪnanke, Jupiter’s thirteenth moon, was discovered in 1951 by Seth Nicholson. It is named after Elara from Greek mythology, the mother of the giant Tityus, fathered by Zeus. Elara has a mass of 8 x 10 17kg and takes 259.6528 Earth days to orbit Jupiter. It has a diameter of 80 km (50 miles) and orbits Jupiter at a distance of 11,737,000 km (7,250,000 miles. ElaraĮlara was discovered in 1905 by Charles Perinne and is Jupiter’s twelfth moon. ![]() Lysithea was discovered in 1938 by Seth Nicholson. Lysithea is named after the daughter of Oceanus in Greek mythology. It has a mass of 8 x 10 16kg and takes 259.22 Earth days to orbit Jupiter. The eleventh moon from Jupiter’s surface is Lysithea, a world which is 24 km (15 miles) in diameter and orbits at around 11,720,000 km (7,200,000 miles) from Jupiter. It has a mass of 9.5 x 10 18kg and takes 250.5662 days to orbit Jupiter. The moon is named after a nymph who produced three sons with Zeus (Jupiter). Himalia is 170 km (110 miles) in diameter and orbits 11,480,000 km (7,000,000 miles) from Jupiter. Jupiter’s tenth moon is Himalia, discovered by Charles Perrine in 1904. It takes 238.72 Earth days for Leda to orbit Jupiter and it orbits at a distance of 11,094,000 km (6,900,000 miles) from the planet. It is named for the queen of Sparta and the mother of Pollux and Helen of Troy – the father was Zeus. Leda is the ninth moon from Jupiter and is also the smallest moon with a mean diameter of 16 km (9.9 miles). More facts about Callisto Facts about the outer moons of Jupiter Leda Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury, but has only 1/3 the mass at 1.08×10 23 kg. It takes Callisto 16.7 days to complete its orbit around Jupiter and during that time it will have travelled more than seven million miles. It is the outermost of the Galilean moons, orbiting 1,883,000 km (1,170,000 miles) from Jupiter. It is home to the Valhalla crater, which is nearly 4,000 km in diameter and the largest crater in the solar system. Callisto is the eighth moon of Jupiter and is a large, dark but low-density moon which is covered with impact craters. ![]()
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