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Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter, and in the Solar System. Despite being the only moon in the Solar System with a substantial magnetic field , it is the largest Solar System object without a substantial atmosphere.
Ganymede (Jupiter III), the third Galilean moon, is named after the mythological Ganymede, cupbearer of the Greek gods and Zeus's beloved. [41] Ganymede is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System at 5262.4 kilometers in diameter, which makes it larger than the planet Mercury – although only at about half of its mass [ 42 ] since ...
The images provide new insights into the chemical composition of two of Jupiter’s moons. Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscape Skip to main content
The orbits of Io, Europa, and Ganymede form a pattern known as a Laplace resonance; for every four orbits that Io makes around Jupiter, Europa makes exactly two orbits and Ganymede makes exactly one. This resonance causes the gravitational effects of the three large moons to distort their orbits into elliptical shapes, because each moon ...
Name Number Latitude Longitude Etana: Jg1 65-90° N 0-360° W Perrine Regio: Jg2 21-66° N 0-90° W Galileo Regio: Jg3 21-66° N 90-180° W Philus Sulcus
The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...
Just one day before opposition, Jupiter will be around 367 million miles away from the Earth, the closest the two planets have been in 59 years, according to NASA. The last time that Jupiter was ...
Geologic Map of Ganymede (February 11, 2014). This is a list of named geological features, except craters, on Ganymede , a moon of Jupiter . The list is complete as of August 2022.