... Historical Data . Orbital Data . Physical Data . ... Sun . ... Jupiter . ... Saturn . ... William Herschel . ... William Cranch Bond . ... William Henry Pickering . Uranus . ... 1986 . Voyager 2 . ... William Lassell . ... J. Christy Key: Name Name of the planet or satellite. Orbits Sun or planet about which it orbits. ...

Thebe . Jupiter XIV - 1979J2 . Thebe [THEE-bee] is the fourth known satellite of Jupiter. ... Thebe rotates synchronously around Jupiter. Very little is known about this moon. ... Stephen Synnott . Date of discovery . ... Discovery Image . This is one of the discovery images (FDS 16383.54) of Thebe. ... Once the shadow images were analyzed, Thebe was located on several other images. ... This image of Thebe (FDS 16220.56) was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 27, 1979. ...

... Auroral Currents . ... 25b. Io Dynamo . ... Aurora from Space . ... The giant planet Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo and visible through good binoculars. ... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing)....