Moons orbiting the planet Jupiter, in
The Solar System
(Jupiter is sometimes also called
Sol 5 as it is the fifth planet orbiting Sol
or The Sun). The largest four of these moons
(Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are collectively known as the
Galilean Satellites. Scientific stations were
constructed on at least one of the Jovian Moons but were abandoned long before -16 AI
(2200 AD).
The stations were probably built on one, or more, of the
Galilean Satellites sometime between -196 and -92
AI 2020 and 2124 AD) and were probably abandoned sometime between -36 and -16
AI (2180 and 2200 AD).
[Source: A Short History of Mankind]
Fifth planet orbiting The Sun or Sol. Its
scientific name is Sol 5. It is a giant planet (the largest in the
Solar System). Jupiter has a modest ring system and many moons
(known collectively as Jovian Moons) the largest four of these are
called the Galilean Satellites. Jupiter's atmosphere
is mostly hydrogen (nine-tenths) and helium (one-tenth) with traces of other elements. The liquid hydrogen core behaves
like metal, and generates a dangerously powerful magnetic field around both the planet and its moons. Over 1600
asteroids (known as
Trojan Asteroids) share Jupiter's orbit, hovering around the
Lagrangian points ahead of and behind the planet.
Deuterium (hydrogen-2) and helium-3 gases were probably mined from Jupiter's atmosphere for use as
starship fuel during the
colonisation. The
Trojan Asteroids, or
Galilean Satellites may well have provided the raw
materials for building some of the starships.
