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CALLISTO : SATELLITE IV OF JUPITER



Callisto as seen by Voyager
Credit : NASA/C. J. Hamilton



Callisto is the Galilean satellite the farthest from Jupiter.



It is not the smallest but it is the less bright : the ice appears only in recent craters.
Elsewhere there are dark silicate rocks, as on Ganymede.