It doesn't shine.It orbits.

Elara is the darkest moon of Jupiter. It reflects less than five percent of the light that reaches it, which is why almost nobody has ever looked at it. It has been going around anyway, for longer than there has been anyone to notice.

4.6%Light reflected
259Days per orbit
80 kmAcross
1905Year it was found

The moon

Found by accident, on a photographic plate.

On 6 January 1905, Charles Dillon Perrine was photographing Jupiter through the Crossley reflector at Lick Observatory. He had found a moon the day before — a bigger one, the one that got the attention. Elara turned up on the plate the next night.

It sits 11.7 million kilometres out, taking two hundred and fifty-nine days to come back around. It is dark rock, probably a broken piece of a captured asteroid. It does not glow, it has no rings, and no spacecraft has ever been sent to see it.

Everyone looks at the bright ones. Elara kept its orbit either way.

The token

One hundred million. Minted once. Nothing else.

ELARA is an ERC‑20 on Base. The supply was created in a single transaction and can never grow. There is no roadmap here, no yield, and nothing promised — only a contract anyone can read.

Contract · Base

0x0290a301763B227e43aD9626590814Dd28C977f3
Supply
100,000,000
Decimals
18
Network
Base
Chain ID
8453

The source is verified on Basescan with an exact match. None of the above is a claim — it is what the published code does.