Satellites are small bodies that rotatearound the planets. In the solar system, two planets (Mercury and Venus) do not have satellites, Earth has one, and Mars has two. A large number of satellites attracts the magnetic field of Neptune (13 satellites), Uranus (27 satellites), Saturn (60 satellites). But the largest number of satellites from Jupiter. There are 63! Now you know which planet has more satellites in the solar system.

In addition to such a huge number of satellites,Jupiter has a system of rings. The first four satellites of Jupiter, the largest, were discovered by Galileo at the beginning of the 17th century. He gave them the names Europe, Ganymede, Io, Callisto (names of mythical heroes). With the development of telescopic technology, the remaining satellites began to open, in the 70s of the last century they were discovered already. At the beginning of the third millennium, 47 more satellites of Jupiter were discovered. They are rather small, their radius reaches 4 km. Who knows how many satellites of the planets will be open with time, when the scientific and technological progress of mankind will go even further?

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