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    Callisto (/kəˈlɪstoʊ/, kə-LIST-oh), or Jupiter IV, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede. In the Solar System it is the third-largest moon...
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    moons (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.ən/), or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most readily visible...
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    In Greek mythology, Callisto (/kəˈlɪstoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ Greek pronunciation: [kallistɔ̌ː]) was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the...
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  • is a list of named craters on Callisto, one of the many moons of Jupiter, the most heavily cratered natural satellite in the Solar System (for other...
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    form a satellite system called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, which...
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  • The Callisto Protocol is a 2022 survival horror game developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by Krafton. It was released for PlayStation 4...
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    and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. The Galilean satellites retain the Italian spellings of their names. In the cases of Io, Europa and Callisto, these...
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    though they are extremely thin. Four of the largest natural satellites, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Titan, are thought to have subsurface oceans of liquid...
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    Io (moon) (redirect from Satellite Io)
    directed toward Jupiter. Among the Galilean satellites, in both mass and volume, Io ranks behind Ganymede and Callisto but ahead of Europa. Composed primarily...
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    Earth's Moon, the four Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), and the largest moons of Saturn (Titan) and of Neptune (Triton). Ganymede...
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    Europa, along with Jupiter's three other large moons, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto, was discovered by Galileo Galilei on 8 January 1610, and possibly independently...
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    Carter, starting with the 1972 novel Jandar of Callisto, is a planetary romance set on the satellite and an homage to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs...
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  • Jupiter's irregular satellites before it enters into a polar orbit about Callisto; this mission profile also may include a Callisto lander. In contrast...
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    occultation. There are five satellites capable of completely occulting the Sun: Amalthea[citation needed], Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. All of the others...
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    similar to that observed on the surface of Callisto. Indeed, were it not for its lack of an atmosphere, Callisto could serve as a model for Titan's geology...
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    immediate vicinity of the Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). The satellite would eventually collide with one of these, or a close encounter...
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    spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. These planetary-mass moons are planned to be studied because...
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    and six dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 299 natural satellites, or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally...
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  • Icy moon (redirect from Icy satellite)
    with the remainder rock. Jupiter's outer two Galilean moons Ganymede and Callisto contain more ice since they formed further from the hot proto-Jupiter....
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    temperatures of most of the other satellites here, because it has an atmosphere that makes the formula inapplicable. ^ Callisto's axial tilt varies between 0...
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    spacecraft planned to visit any irregular satellites in the future. 71 irregular moons of Jupiter (with Callisto for comparison; the other Galileans are...
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    date the formation of the terrain of inert natural satellites devoid of atmospheres, such as Callisto. No multiple ring crater, nor any complex crater with...
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    tenuous seasonal atmosphere of CO2, much like that of the Jovian moon Callisto. Other gases, like nitrogen or methane, are unlikely to be present, because...
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    Heimdall (Callistoan crater) (category Callisto (moon))
    is one of the largest known impact craters on Jupiter's Galilean satellite Callisto, with a diameter of 210 km. It is located near the Callistoan south...
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    natural satellites is the potential of moons to provide habitats for life, though it is not an indicator that they harbor it. Natural satellites are expected...
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    This is a list of named geological features on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter. This list is complete as of August 2022. Callistoan catenae (crater chains)...
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    Europa Ganymede Callisto Jupiter trojans Jupiter-crossing minor planets Saturn Rings of Saturn Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites Mimas Enceladus...
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  • d_{s}^{2}}{M_{s}\cdot d_{p}^{2}}}} Callisto is a satellite of Jupiter. The parameters in the equation are Callisto–Jupiter distance (dp) is 1.883 · 106...
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    Rhea (moon) (redirect from Satellite Rhea)
    The leading hemisphere is heavily cratered and uniformly bright. As on Callisto, the craters lack the high relief features seen on the Moon and Mercury...
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    more massive than Iapetus are: the Moon, the 4 Galilean moons (Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa), Titan, Rhea, Titania, Oberon, and Triton. "Iapetus"....
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