Euanthe: A Tiny Moon of Jupiter!

Euanthe is a moon, which means it's a space rock that goes around a planet. Euanthe's planet is Jupiter, the biggest planet in our whole solar system! Imagine Jupiter as a giant beach ball and Euanthe as a tiny pebble rolling around it.

It's not a planet itself, but a moon that orbits Jupiter. It's a very small moon, only about 3 kilometers (about 2 miles) across. That's like the length of a few football fields put together!

Euanthe lives super far away from Earth, in space, orbiting the giant planet Jupiter. Jupiter is so far away that it looks like a bright star in our night sky. Euanthe is one of Jupiter's many moons, and it's part of a group of moons that are all friends.

It orbits Jupiter at a distance of about 20,900,000 kilometers (13,000,000 miles). That's so far, it would take you millions of years to drive there!

Scientists think Euanthe is made of mostly rock, just like the ground you walk on. It's not a big, round ball like our Moon. Instead, it's shaped more like a potato or a lumpy rock. Because it's so small and rocky, it doesn't have any air to breathe or water to swim in. It's a cold, dark place, and it's probably covered in dust and craters from space rocks bumping into it over millions of years.

Even though Euanthe is tiny, it's always on the move! It zooms around Jupiter really fast. It takes Euanthe about 257 Earth days to make one full trip around its giant planet. That's almost a whole year for us on Earth! While it's busy orbiting Jupiter, it's also being pulled by Jupiter's super strong gravity, which is like a giant magnet holding onto it.