Many astronomers have discovered Jupiter's moons. Galileo discovered the first four moons of Jupiter, named Calisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.
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Galileo discovered Jupiter's 4 largest moons, the Galilean moons. The largest moon's name is Ganymede.
Because the person who discovered it named it the moon like the person who discovered Jupiter called it Jupiter. Thanks for spearing the time to read this.
Io - a moon of Jupiter
Galileo discovered all three
Jupiter has 62 moons. The farthest moon is Io. it was discovered in 1610 and travels in the opposite direction of Jupiter.
He discovered them orbiting the Planet.
One of the first 4 moons of Jupiter to be discovered.
Elara is Jupiter's eighth largest moon and was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine. It is about 470,800,000 miles from the Sun.
Scientists have recently discovered frozen water on the moon, and on Jupiter's moon of Europa