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ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...
New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...
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 ...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped this color image of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, on July 7, 1979 from a distance of 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers).
While Ganymede hasn’t yet been observed spewing plumes of water vapor like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Jupiter’s largest moon is most likely hiding an enormous saltwater ocean.
Ganymede and Jupiter are in a complicated relationship, and some of that relationship extends to Ganymede's surface chemistry, where Jupiter's plasma strikes the moon's poles and irradiates the ice.
The European Space Agency’s $1.7 billion Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft blasted-off in April ultimately to go into orbit around Ganymede for nine months from late 2034.
The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in over 20 years, sending back glimpses of the largest, wettest and most magnetic moon in the Solar System.
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.
Of course, there’s still a lot we don’t know about planets like Jupiter and its moon, Ganymede. In fact, the closest we’ve come to the Ganymede itself is 645 miles.
Space crash: New research suggests huge asteroid shifted Jupiter's moon Ganymede on its axis An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that struck Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs ...
Juno took this image from a latitude of around 55 degrees south. At the time, Juno was 15 times closer than Ganymede, which orbits 666,000 miles away from Jupiter.