Scientists have a new map -- the best created so far -- of the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, and it is both beautiful and revealing. Ganymede is technically a satellite of Jupiter ...

Ganymede is the seventh moon and third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter, orbiting at about 665,000 miles (1,070 million kilometers). It takes Ganymede about seven Earth days to orbit ...

Last week, researchers released the first-ever geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. Here's the map again, flattened into a 2D, rectangular. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

NASA scientists have produced the first global geological map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede by combining images from over twenty years of observation by the Voyager spacecraft and the Galileo ...

“The highly detailed, colorful map confirmed a number of outstanding scientific hypotheses regarding Ganymede’s geologic history, and also disproved others,” said Baerbel Lucchitta ...

A geologic map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede is superimposed over a global color mosaic of the Galilean moon made of images from NASA's Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft.

🔭 Ganymede, Jupiter's moon, has its own ... It will then provide a complete 3D map of the radiation belts around the icy moon and study the underlying physical processes in detail to ...

The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in over 20 years, ... This mosaic (right) served as the base map for the geologic map of Ganymede (left).

Ganymede likely has some special characteristics. It isn’t just Jupiter’s biggest moon, but the biggest in the entire solar system by far—about the size of Mercury and our moon combined.It ...

Ganymede is a particularly weird place. Not only is it Jupiter’s most massive satellite, it’s the biggest moon in the whole solar system.

Ganymede mapped: See best map yet of our solar system’s largest moon 1 / 1 NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft spied Jupiter’s moon Ganymede on Feb. 27, 2007, from 2.2 million miles away.

JUICE will enter a low polar orbit around Ganymede in 2033. It will then provide a complete 3D map of the radiation belts around the icy moon and study the underlying physical processes in detail to ...