The second largest of Jupiter's satellites

Usage examples of callisto.

The two of them pulled themselves from handhold to handhold across the curving surface of the Callisto lander, toward the embedded footpad.

The Callisto lander would normally be tucked up in an external module next to an engine pod.

Suddenly there were a couple of brief flares of hydrazine jets, and the thing was hanging motionless in reference to the Callisto lander.

As co-commanders of the Callisto lander, he and Li would depend on each other utterly when they set down on the frozen surface of the Jovian moon.

If that landing leg had given way when we touched down on Callisto, Li and I could have been killed.

Otherwise the huge shaft was unbroken, except for the protective housings that held the Callisto lander and the automated probes.

Cygnus planet, a sooty ball which was crowding Callisto on the elliptical orbit which intersected the path of its own former moon.

The ship had begun the final braking maneuver that would swing it past Callisto and put it in orbit around Jupiter half a million miles beyond the fringes of the radiation belt.

He raised a gloved hand and waved toward the window of the Callisto lander.

Romantics cried, unaware that the frontier of the mind had opened in a laboratory on Callisto at the turn of the twenty-fourth century.

The only action one could take if it should stop would be to call on Callisto for a ferry-rocket to come and take them off until a ship should call to repair it.

They could not return to Callisto, and Ganymede and Europa were little better.

Spirit had had no direct experience with cats since leaving Callisto at age twelve.

Neither Hope nor Spirit were familiar with this, as airless Callisto had never had storms.

Spirit and Hope were foreign-born, technically, as they had come from the independent satellite of Callisto and had been naturalized as full Jupiter citizens when they left the Navy.