Callisto is Jupiter's second-largest moon and the third-largest moon in the solar system, the most heavily cratered body known in the solar system, with data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft suggesting it may hide a salty ocean beneath its ice crust.
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Source Wikipedia: Europa (moon)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.nasa.gov, Jupiter Moons: Callisto
Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s revealed Callisto may have a secret: a salty ocean beneath its surface.
science.nasa.gov, Jupiter's Galilean Moons
They are called the Galilean satellites after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who is credited with their discovery in 1610.
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Callisto is Jupiter's second-largest moon and the third-largest moon in the solar system, the most heavily cratered body known in the solar system, with data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft suggesting it may hide a salty ocean beneath its ice crust.
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Callisto ( kÉ™-LIST-oh) is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede.
Wikipedia: Titan (moon)
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Titan's diameter and mass (and thus its density) are similar to those of the Jovian moons Ganymede and Callisto.
Wikipedia: Europa (moon)
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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.
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