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Callisto is the third biggest moon in the Solar System behind Ganymede and Saturn’s moon Titan. As big as the planet Mercury, it nevertheless only has a third of the small planet’s mass, as it is mainly made of ices and rocks as opposed to rocks and metals.
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The formation of the ozone layer around 600 million years ago is one of the reasons why life on Earth was able to leave the protection of water and colonize the land.
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There will be no romantic Jupiter-rise for the future colonists on Callisto. You will be either on the near side where Jupiter is always visible or on the far side blanketed by a dark sky.
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Henin, B. (2018). Callisto. In: Exploring the Ocean Worlds of Our Solar System. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93476-1_5
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