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- Elara is the eighth largest moon of Jupiter. With a mean radius of 26.7 miles (43 km) assuming an albedo of 0.04, it's only about 2 percent the size of Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moons.
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The Galilean moons are named after Galileo Galilei, who observed them in either December 1609 or January 1610, and recognized them as satellites of Jupiter in March 1610; [2] they remained the only known moons of Jupiter until the discovery of the fifth largest moon of Jupiter Amalthea in 1892. [3]
Elara / ˈ ɛ l ə r ə / is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in 1905 in photographs taken with the 36" Crossley reflecting telescope which he had recently rebuilt.
Elara is an outer moon of Jupiter, part of the Himalia group, and is the eighth largest of Jupiter's 79 moons. This moon was discovered relatively recently, compared to the Galilean moons, in 1905 by Charles Dillon Perrine.
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Dec 26, 2023 · Jupiter’s Galilean moons are the closest large moons to Earth, and are therefore the most easily visible through a small telescope. Today, NASA’s Juno mission is in orbit around Jupiter, getting opportunities to observe some of its moons.
