Written by: Anushka Yadav - 2025003, Grade VI
Posted on: 19 June, 2019
How would you like to have a few moons named after you? The four largest moons of Jupiter are called “Galilean” moons in the honor of the first person to see them: the Italian scientists Galileo. Galileo spied these moons in 1610 A.D. using a telescope that he built himself. It contained two lenses that focused light and made the things appear 32 times larger. It was called a refracting telescope. Galileo was also the first person to see the Moon’s mountains and craters.
