Ganymede, one of three ocean moons of Jupiter, could be hiding layers under its icy exterior. New experiments on the behaviour of saline water under pressure suggest a complex, layered ocean with ...

Scientists believe that Jupiter's moon Ganymede may possess ice and liquid oceans stacked up in several layers much like the popular multilayered sandwich. They add that this arrangement may raise ...

This finding means that life could have even arisen on Ganymede. The study suggests there may be a layer of salty water directly on top of Ganymede’s rocky core. Chemical interactions between ...

In fact, its only has a very thin atmosphere, and a surface pressure of about ~1 micropascal, provided by a layer of (mostly oxygen) gas. It would take approximately 100 billion Ganymede ...

Ganymede has a core of metallic iron, which is followed by a layer of rock that is topped off by a crust of mostly ice that is very thick. There are also a number of bumps on Ganymede's surface ...

the Juno scientists also acknowledge the possibility that organics and salts could have somehow originated in the shallower layers of the crust. Ganymede’s crust is much thicker than Europa’s ...

Scientists said on Friday that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may possess ice and liquid oceans stacked up in several layers much like the popular multi-layered sandwich. They added that this ...

The usual idea is that Ganymede is like a giant frozen lake with a layer of ice perhaps 800 km (497 mi) thick floating on it. For those scientists seeking life on other planets, this seemed a ...

Besides reorienting the moon, Hirata suggests the impact would also have blasted away Ganymede’s surface layer and reshaped its interior. “Making sense of all those overlapping events on ...

Some studies suggest multiple seas, stacked together in a layer cake of ice sheets and oceans, hide underground. “Because Ganymede is so big, its interior structure is more complicated” than ...

Researchers believe that Ganymede’s interior may be like a club sandwich, stacked with alternating layers of ice and ocean. Understanding how the impact altered the moon could reveal insights ...

Besides reorienting the moon, Hirata suggests the impact would also have blasted away Ganymede’s surface layer and reshaped its interior. “Making sense of all those overlapping events on ...