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Size comparison of Europa (lower left) with the Moon (top left) and Earth (right) Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth's moon . At just over 3,100 kilometres (1,900 mi) in diameter , it is the sixth-largest moon and fifteenth-largest object in the Solar System .
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Europa is similar in size to Earth’s Moon, while Ganymede is the largest moon in the whole Solar System. PhD student Oliver King, from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and ...
The largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with
Europa, whose diameter of roughly 1,940 miles (3,100 km) is approximately 90% that of our moon, has been viewed as a potential habitat for life beyond Earth in our solar system.
"Europa is an ice covered moon of Jupiter, about the size of Earth's moon, but believed to have a global subsurface ocean that contains more than twice the water of all of Earth's oceans combined ...
The sizes and masses of many of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are fairly well known due to numerous observations and interactions of the Galileo and Cassini orbiters; however, many of the moons with a radius less than ~100 km, such as Jupiter's Himalia, have far less certain masses. [5]
Europa is one of the water worlds of our solar system, holding a vast ocean under its frozen surface. Laboratory experiments have re-created the surface of Europa, one of the four large moons of ...