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Europa (Jupiter II), is the sixth -closest moon of Jupiter , and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites , and the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System . Europa was discovered in by Galileo Galilei and was named after Europa , mother of King Minos of Crete , who became one of Zeus lovers. In addition to Earth-bo