A lot of them came from Greek mythology. For instance, Io is the name of a naiad who was a priestess of Hera, but her beauty attracted Zeus and he made love to her. Zeus covered them both up by a big black cloud, but when Hera saw it, she was not fooled. She went to check out what was happening, and Zeus turned Io into a cow to hide her. Hera asked for it as her pet, and tided Io to a tree. Zeus took pity on Io and sent Hermes to free her. She escaped, but Hera sent a wasp to always sting Io. She ran away, finally coming to Egypt, where she had her two kids. They or their descendants, can't remember which one, finally went back to Greece, and I forget the rest. But yeah, a lot of moons were named after Greek mythology stuff. And the planets, besides Earth, were named after the Roman names of the Greek Gods. Venus: Aphrodite, Mars: Ares, Mercury: Hermes, Neptune: Poseidon, Pluto: Hades, and I forget who Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are named after. But, almost all the things in the universe that we know of are named after things in mythology.
Jupiter means Day Father. It is a very old Indo-European name, showing up in Sanskrit as Dyaus-pita and in Greek as Zeus.
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Its Calisto,Ganymede,Europa, and Io
Europea is the smoothest and the iceyest moon, but Jupiter has many other moons too.
Jupiter dosent have a surface. And if it did, you wouldn't be able to see the moons because of the 30 mile thick clouds!
Jupiter has four moons that orbit it. the names of these moons are IO (eye-oh) Callisto, Europa and Ganymede.Time taken for the moons to orbit Jupiter:IO- 1.7 Earth yearsCallisto- 16.7 Earth yearsEuropa- 3.5 Earth yearsGanymede- 7.1 Earth years
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Its Calisto,Ganymede,Europa, and Io
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
Europea is the smoothest and the iceyest moon, but Jupiter has many other moons too.
jupiters ice moon is Io
we can't use jupiters moons for anything because fistly we can not get out that far to reach Jupiters moon and if we could it would take thousands of years and Jupiters Moons would be to big to do anything with anyway. so the answer to What could Jupiter's moons be used for? is....Nothing.
Socrates, Gallileo
it's moons
Jupiters Moons
Jupiter dosent have a surface. And if it did, you wouldn't be able to see the moons because of the 30 mile thick clouds!
jupiters moons are different some have an atmosphere and MOST are asteroids
Europa has frozen oceans.