EUROPE NEW DISCOVERIES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN Jupiters moon
Details Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixthclosest to the planet of all the 79 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixthlargest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and was named after Europa, the Phoenician mother of King Minos of Crete and lover of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter). Slightly smaller than Earth s Moon, Eu
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