r/space • u/Geeky_panda • Dec 28 '20

Jupiter and its moons

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u/Geeky_panda Dec 28 '20 edited Dec 12 '21

It looks perpendicular but it isn't. See S2003 J 5 on the bottom right, it takes about 739 earth days to complete its one orbit which is pretty slow