Callisto (moon)

Callisto ({{IPA2|k??l?sto?}}, ka-lis'-toe, Greek Καλλιστώ) is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the solar system, about the same size as the planet Mercury.

Callisto in fiction

• Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Blue Mars contains a description of a flourishing colony on Callisto.
• Jupiter Moon was a short-lived British attempt at making a space soap opera. It was set on a space university that orbited Callisto.
• Cowboy Bebop features a snowy Callisto, filled with fugitives and populated only by men.
• In ', the protagonist, Dingo Egret, finds the Orbital Frame Jehuty buried in ice under Callisto's surface.

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Related Topics:
Ganymede - Themisto

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