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Rainbow Canyon (nicknamed Star Wars Canyon and Jedi Transition) is a canyon inside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California, on the park's western border.It is about 130 miles (210 km) west of Las Vegas and 160 miles (260 km) north of Los Angeles.
Ganymede's magnetic field is probably created by convection within its core, and influenced by tidal forces from Jupiter's far greater magnetic field. [23] Ganymede has a thin oxygen atmosphere that includes O, O 2, and possibly O 3 . [17] Atomic hydrogen is a minor atmospheric constituent.
Valley of the Shadow of Death, with no cannonballs on the road. Film-maker Errol Morris went to Sevastopol in 2007 to identify the site of this "first iconic photograph of war". [4] He was investigating a second version of the photograph without cannonballs on the road and the question as to the authenticity of the picture.
The mixture of chemicals that make up the frozen surfaces on two of Jupiter’s largest moons have been revealed in the most detailed images of them ever taken by a telescope on Earth.
The Juno probe will make flybys of three of Jupiter's moons thanks to a mission extension.
The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...
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1036 Ganymed, provisional designation 1924 TD, is a stony asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group.It was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924, and named after Ganymede from Greek mythology.