Jupiter's 58 Moons!
If we ever get to Jupiter we would have to worry about getting hit by a moon!
Jupiter's 58 Moons! (Hover)
Having so many moons must make it possible to constantly have a light source?
58 moons is quite alot. It also must make a very beautiful sky to look upon during the day or night. But it being Jupiter, there probably is no day. But still to be able to gaze upon more than one more in the night, has got to be beautiful.
Wow JB ,thats alot of moons.do you happen to have a link that still works? I tried the one you have in your post,and an error occured.So if there is a way fix it or maybe it has a new address. Any way, the subject is very interesting to me.I was also wondering if the site has the names of all the moons.Thanx............
DIo
It was mentioned that being able to gaze on those moons at night would be beautiful. However, Jupiter has an ever present cloud cover that would prevent such a view. As well, the comment by Neo regarding light sources is not possible being that a moon is not a light source but simply reflects the Suns rays. Being that there is still only one sun, there would retain very close to the same lunar schedule all the time, with different moons having a brighter or less bright reflection on different nights, but no true light source other than the sun. While Jupiter has 60 moons, that didn't seem to stop the asteroids from smashing into it. You would think with 60 moons that they would have blocked at least one or two of the asteroids!
NASA SCIENTISTS WAX POETIC ABOUT JUPITER PHOTOS
New data and pictures of Jupiter and its moons taken by the New Horizons spacecraft earlier this year are causing excitement among NASA scientists.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05...sa-jupiter.html