Moons
Jupiter has approximatively 62 moons in orbiting Jupiter. The 4 biggest Moons are : Lo , Europa ,Ganymede and Callisto. They orbit Jupiter because of gravity oulling them around Jupiter. Galileo Galilei was a was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He was the man that discovered the 4 moons. BEcause of that Lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto were called ' the four Galilean moons'
Diagram identifying the 4 moons of Jupiter
How do the moons stay in orbit with Jupiter ?
Gravity, Forces , magnetism. Jupiter's moons stay in orbit because gravity pulls them towards Jupiter. it mainly happens like a game of tug of war . Two forces are included, one pulls the moons towards Jupiter , the other one pulls them towards space. If one of them wouldn't be there the moons would be attached to Jupiter or float around space. So each force has a very important role. So Jupiter's moons stay in orbit around Jupiter because Gravity pulls them !
Brightest moons from the view of Jupiter
I think the brightest moon from the view of Jupiter would be Lo. This is because lo is the closest to Jupiter ! As we expiriance from our moon, we cant see any of the other planets, because they are very far away from earth. On the other hand it also depends on how much sun light is reflected on the planet. So its very hard to tell because no one knows which of the moons has the most sun light. My final answer is Lo though.
This is a 'hand drawn' picture of the view of Jupiter into the night sky.
This is a 'hand drawn picture' of jupiter and its moons.
What moon what brightness ?
The brightest moon would be Lo (because it it closest to jupiter). Following it would be ganymede because it is 2.closest. Because it is not very far away from Lo I think they have a very small differancy ! In third place would be Europa ! It is the third planet away from Jupiter. And last but not least it would be calisto. This planet would maby not even be seen from Jupiter because it is more than 180 arc sec away from Jupiter.
How I decided which moon was which
During my research i collected tuns of information, this helped me to figure the Question out. Actually by looking at pictures and description of the 4 Galileo moons it was easy to figure out which one is which. I recognized them form the shape, the distance they were from Jupiter and from their general information ( what type of surface they have , if they have tornadoes of storms..)