Classic Cosmos - How Many Moons Can You Count?

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Classic Cosmos

How many moons can you count in this one?

Five. Our Moon in the foreground and Jupiter's four big ones lined up behind it. Ganymede, Io, Callisto and Europa all bigger or almost as big as Luna. Makes you wonder how many of these would have their own little weather systems if we ever parked a base nearby.

Juno's been doing close flybys of three of them. Feels like we're finally starting to treat the outer solar system as somewhere we might actually visit rather than just photograph. 🚀

Credit: Chirag Upreti / APOD

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