JWST peeks at Callisto's ancient scars

Of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, Callisto is the one that gets the least attention.

The short version

• Io is constantly being resurfaced by volcanoes.
• Europa has a giant liquid water ocean.
• And Ganymede has its own magnetic field that interacts with its parent planet in weird ways.

What happened

Callisto, by comparison, seems sedate, with its ancient, crater-saturated surface seemingly frozen in time. But new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that even this most benign of the Big Four moons is more active than previously realized.

Why it matters

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