Galileo at Jupiter — meetings with remarkable moons

William B. McKinnon
Additional contact information
William B. McKinnon: Washington University

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6655, 23-26

Abstract: Abstract The four large moons of Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — form the most coherently organized planetary system known. Over the past two years, the Galileo spacecraft has deepened our knowledge of how these worlds are interconnected, and illuminated the uniqueness of each. Gravity data are beginning to reveal the moons' internal structure, and a new conundrum is emerging: how did outermost Callisto stay cool enough to remain an undifferentiated mixture of ice and rock?

Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/36222 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:390:y:1997:i:6655:d:10.1038_36222

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/36222

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().