Solar eclipse on Jupiter
A solar eclipse on Jupiter occurs when one of the satellite of this planet eclipse the Sun, seen from surface.
Five satellites are sufficiently large to be able to occult the Sun; it is about Amalthée, of Callisto, Europe, Ganymède and Io. The other satellites of the gas giantess are too small and them apparent Diamètre is lower than that of the Sun, leading to simple a astronomical Transit.
The solar eclipses are not particularly rare on Jupiter, this one being very large and little tilted on its axis (the principal Jupiter satellites are about located in the equatorial plan of planet). In fact, almost all the revolutions of the five satellites referred to above lead to a visible solar eclipse since a point of the Jupiter surface (with the difference of the the Moon and Ground, for example). The shades projected by the four satellite galiléens can be observed since the Earth in a telescope.
See too
- Eclipse
- Jupiter (planet)
- astronomical Screening
- Transit
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