Search results
Ganymede is the only Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a male figure—like Io, Europa, and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. The Galilean satellites retain the Italian spellings of their names. In the cases of Io, Europa and Callisto, these are identical to the Latin, but the Latin form of Ganymede is Ganymedes .
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede.
Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, even bigger than the planet Mercury, and the dwarf planet Pluto. There’s strong evidence that Ganymede has an underground saltwater ocean that may hold more water than all the water on Earth's surface.
May 6, 2023 · Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon and is also the largest moon in the entire solar system. It is bigger than both Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto and only slightly smaller than Mars.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided important contributions to what we know about Ganymede – including the best evidence yet that Ganymede may have an underground saltwater ocean, opening up the possibility that Jupiter’s largest moon is another candidate for life beyond Earth.
May 20, 2024 · Ganymede. Jupiter's moon Ganymede, a natural-colour view derived from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft on June 26, 1996. The surface of the satellite shows distinct dark and light patches, consisting of older and newer terrain, respectively.
Jun 3, 2021 · On Monday, June 7, at 1:35 p.m. EDT (10:35 a.m. PDT), NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the solar system’s largest natural satellite since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close ...
Jun 8, 2021 · The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb. The first two images from NASA Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth.
Aug 5, 2021 · The science team for NASA’s Juno spacecraft has produced a new infrared map of the mammoth Jovian moon Ganymede, combining data from three flybys, including its latest approach on July 20.
Apr 30, 2018 · Far across the solar system, where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. Newly resurrected data from Galileo's first flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede is yielding new insights.
