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-What are Jupiter's Galilean moons?
-What are their characteristics? |
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Io: active volcanoes
Europa: ...
Ganymede: largest moon
Callisto: most heavily cratered |
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Which moon has the shortest distance to complete one orbit? |
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Which moon has the longest distance to complete one orbit? |
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Which moon orbits Jupiter in the least amount of time? |
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Which moon orbits Jupiter in the most amount of time? |
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When viewed from a position above Jupiter's north pole, do the Galilean moons appear to move in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction? |
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Whem viewed from a position above the north pole of earth, does the moon appear to move in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction? |
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