Ganymede
Jupiter III
Ganymede ("GAN uh meed") is the seventh and largest of Jupiter's known satellites. Ganymede is the third of the Galilean moons. orbit: 1,070,000 km from Jupiter diameter: 5262 km mass: 1.48e23 kg ...
Ganymede (moon)
Ganymede
True color image taken by the Galileo probe ...
Ganymede
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(gn´md´´), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter; the largest natural satellite in the solar system, it is larger than the planet Mercury.
Ganymede Map Images
This map of Ganymede was constructed using the Voyager Basemap Mosaics created by the USGS and Galileo images taken on orbits E6 and C9.
Ganymede is the Largest Solar System Moon
Jupiter's moon Ganymede
Ganymede is not only the largest natural satellite of Jupiter, but also the largest moon in our Solar System.
Ganymede (left) and Callisto (right) as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. New research explains the surprising differences between the two moons. Images: NASA/JPL/DLR.
Limb of Ganymede
The interior of is thought to consist of a rocky core about the size of our Moon and to be surrounded by a thick covering of ice roughly equal in mass.
The Moon Ganymede: Laboratory
for Tectonic Motion
The figure shown to the right is a Galileo Spacecraft image of the third Galilean moon, Ganymede (Ref), which has the distinction of being the largest moon in the Solar System.
Ganymede
Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury.
Ganymede and Callisto: Ice Worlds
Ganymede is the solar system's largest moon -- larger than the planet Mercury. It consists of about half ice and half rock and metal.
Ganymede
Like Europa, it has recently been discovered that Ganymede probably has a liquid water ocean underneath its icy exterior. Ganymede is the largest of Jupiter's moons. It is larger in diameter than both the planets Mercury and Pluto. ...
GANYMEDE AND CALLISTO
The two outermost Galilean moons are Ganymede (at 1.1 million km, or 15 planetary radii, from the center of Jupiter) and Callisto (at 1.9 million km, or 26 Jupiter radii).
Ganymede (J III)
The largest satellite of Jupiter. Radius 2635 km (slightly larger than Mercury). Mass about 1.65 × 1026 g; period 7.155 days; e = 0.0015.
Gaseous Fragmentation ...
Ganymede. Unlike Callisto, Ganymede, an equally icy satellite, reveals distinct patches of dark and light terrain.
GANYMEDE
Ganymede is the largest moon of , a large, icy, outer moon that is scarred with impact craters and many parallel faults. It has a diameter of about 3,400 miles (5,268 km) and orbits Jupiter at a mean distance of 664,000 miles (1,070,000 km).
Ganymede
One of Jupiter's largest moons. Ganymede, the largest satellite in our solar system, is about 5300 kilometers (3300 miles) wide and larger than the planet Mercury.
Io ...
Ganymede is one of the and is the largest satellite in the solar system. 40% of the surface is peppered with craters. The remaining 60% is criss-crossed with grooves, possibly formed by extensional faulting.
Ganymede, on the other hand has shown itself to be a much less active world, but with exciting, unexpected fractures in the ice.
Ganymede: Galilean moon of Jupiter.
Gaspra: An asteroid
Gas giant: A large, icy and gaseous planet in the outer solar system.
Ganymede - There are many more craters on this world, but there are also many ice flow features (similar to what was seen on Europa). This is a bit confusing, since Ganymede is so much further away from Jupiter than Io and Europa.
Ganymede is the only known planetary satellite to have its own dipolar magnetic field. It appears to have a dense core about 3,000 km (1,900 miles) in diameter of iron or iron sulfide, enveloped in rock.
Ganymede's New-Found Lumpy Interior
(Added 08/21/04) Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede.
Ganymede (moon)
'Ganymede' is a Moons of Jupiter and the List of natural satellites by diameter in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in a little more than seven days, it is the seventh satellite and third Galilean satellite from Jupiter....
Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are all covered in water-ice but each shows different structures indicating that each has been affected in a unique way by its history. Callisto shows the most cratering and probably shows us the oldest surface.
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
The four largest moons of Jupiter, known as the Galilean moons after their discoverer Galileo Galilei. He referred to them as the "Medicean Planets" in honor of his patron, the Medici family.
This explains why Ganymede is Jupiter's brightest and largest companion: Jupiter of course being the Roman name for Zeus.
Ganymede A satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 1,071,000 kilometers. Also called Jupiter III. garbage Miscellaneous objects in orbit, usually material ejected or broken away from a launch vehicle or satellite.
dark terrain (Galileo Project Glossary - JPL) A type of surface on Ganymede and Callisto which is darker than other regions on these moons (see also bright terrain). On Ganymede dark terrain is often associated with furrows.
These four moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) are called the Galilean satellites in his honor. In this system Galileo saw a mini-model of the heliocentric system. The moons are not moving around the Earth but are centered on Jupiter.
1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io
1610 - Galileo Galilei sees Saturn's planetary rings but does not recognize that they are rings
1619 - Johannes Kepler states his third empirical law of planetary motion ...
Then there was Ganymede, the handsome son of King Tros, whom Jupiter, having taken the form of an eagle, transported to heaven on his back, as poets fabulously tell ....
The four largest, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, show similarities to the terrestrial planets, such as volcanism and internal heating. Ganymede, the largest satellite in the Solar System, is larger than Mercury.
Marius is certainly credited with naming them - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. [Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, may have been recorded by a Chinese astronomer named Gan De in 364 BC, using nothing more than his naked eye! Maybe.
Callisto is almost as big as Mercury, and Ganymede is bigger than Mercury. If they orbited the sun, they would be considered planets; internal activity on Ganymede recorded by Galileo suggested that the moon has its own magnetic field.
The most popular identification is that he is Ganymede or Ganymedes, said to have been the most beautiful boy alive. He was the son of King Tros, who gave Troy its name.
The orbits of Io, Europa, and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, 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.
Of these four moons, Ganymede is the largest in the Solar System, Callisto is the third-largest in the Solar System, and Io is the fourth-largest.
The other big ones, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, are icy and have strange markings, including "palimpsest craters," ring-like structures due to impacts which probably once created crater walls like those on our own Moon, ...
The largest of Jupiter's moons is Ganymede. It is the largest moon in the solar system. Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury and three-fourths the size of Mars. Ganymede is the only moon in the solar system known to have its own magnetic field.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (230 B.C.) stated in his Catasterismi (26) that Aquarius was Ganymedes when serving wine or nectar to Zeus.
In Greek myth, Aquarius became associated with Ganymede, the young boy abducted by Zeus. Zeus sent his eagle, Aquila, to snatch Ganymede out of the fields where the boy was tending to his sheep.
contrast, the diameter of the Sun on the sky is 32 arc minutes, the diameter on the sky of Venus at inferior conjunction is 1 arc minute,2 the diameter on the sky of Jupiter at opposition is 47 arc seconds,3 and the diameter on the sky of Ganymede, ...
Jupiter has a large number of satellites, including the four Galilean satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Io is famous for its active volcanic activity, which emits sulphuric compounds, and has a geologically young surface.
JUPITER J_RINGS METIS ADRASTEA AMALTHEA THEBE IO EUROPA GANYMEDE CALLISTO BLACK_SKY NON_SCIENCE or JUPITER J_RINGS METIS ADRASTEA AMALTHEA THEBE IO EUROPA GANYMEDE CALLISTO BLACK_SKY NON_SCIENCE or JUPITER J_RINGS METIS ADRASTEA AMALTHEA THEBE IO ...
The eagle swiftly dropped out of the sky and ever so gently clasped the youth, Ganymede, in its claws. In spite of being tired from its long journey, the eagle sped upward through the sky and carried Ganymede to Zeus.
first discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, Io (which is volcanically active), Europa, Ganymede (the largest of Jupiter's moons, pictured at the left), and Callisto in 1610; these moons are known as the Galilean moons.
In addition to the information collected about the atmosphere of Jupiter, it detected evidence of underground salt water oceans on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, and examined the active volcanoes on the moon Io.
GALILEAN MOONS - Four largest of Jupiter's moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Dscovered independently by Galileo and Marius, Galileo proposed that they be named the “Medicean stars,' in honor of his patron Cosimo II de Medici.
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In the outer solar system, the moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto at Jupiter and Titan and Enceladus at Saturn all harbor some of the key ingredients for life and have been targeted for detailed study by robotic spacecraft.
Regions of the surface of Ganymede consisting of parallel grooves; believed to have formed by repeated fracture and refreezing of the icy crust.
Ground State
The lowest permitted orbit of an electron in an atom.
See cosmic gamma-ray bursts. [H76]
Ganymede (J III)
The largest satellite of Jupiter. Radius 2635 km (slightly larger than Mercury). Mass about 1.65 × 1026 g; period 7.155 days; e = 0.0015. [H76]
Gaseous Fragmentation ...
Aquarius represents the youthful shepherd boy Ganymede who was abducted by the Greek god Zeus and brought to Olympus to serve as cupbearer to the gods. His job was to keep the wine cups of the gods full.
In this constellation myth, Aquila, the giant eagle swooped down and capturing Ganymede, carried him up to Mount Olympus where Ganymede served the Gods as Aquarius the Water-Bearer.
In a specific sense, the Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth and the fifth largest such object in the Solar System (after Io, Callisto, Titan and Ganymede). It is the brightest object in the Earth's sky after the Sun.
grooved terrain: Regions of the surface of Ganymede consisting of parallel grooves; believed to have formed by repeated fracture of the icy crust.
ground state: The lowest permitted electron orbit in an atom.
Twenty eight satellites orbit Jupiter. The four largest moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. They were observed as long ago as 1610.
Jupiter probably has a core of rocky material, surrounded by gases and liquid.
a circular feature on the surface of dark icy moons such as Ganymede and Callisto lacking the relief associated with craters; ...
Several unusual crater chains have been found on Ganymede (example below) and Callisto that appear to be the impact scars of tidally disrupted comets or asteroids.
Galilean satellites The four brightest satellites of Jupiter; Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, named after their discoverer, Galileo Galilei (also known as the Jovian satellites).
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