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Solar Variation

solar variation
In what sense are Jupiter and its moons like a miniature solar system?

In what sense are Jupiter and its moons like a solar system thumbnails? How does the density of the Galilean moons vary with increasing distance from Jupiter? Is there a trend to this variation? If so, Why?

The moons of Jupiter that orbits the planet so planets that orbit a star (the same could be said of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). The moons of Jupiter are very small compared with the planet, as planets are very small compared with the parent star. The decrease in the density of the moons of Galileo to the distance of Jupiter (Io = 3.5 g / cm ^ 3, Europe = 3.01, = 1.94 Ganymede, and Callisto = 1.83). This is a trend (although it does not hold completely for all the moons of Jupiter). One possible explanation is the most distant of Jupiter's moon is the most volatile (ice cream) a moon is able to pick up during training (Ice will decrease the density of an object).


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