Io

Io

Io is one of the many moons that orbit around Jupiter, it is also a Galilean Moon, one of the first four of Jupiter's Moons that Galileo Galilei discovered when he first invented the optical telescope. It is named after the mythological character of Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of Zeus.



Io is the fourth largest moon in our solar system and the second smallest of the Galilean moons. It is the innermost moon of the group.

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See Moons Of Jupiter