Europa /jʊˈroʊpə/ (Jupiter II) is the sixth-closest moon of the planet Jupiter and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites but still the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and possibly independently by Simon Marius around the same time.
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