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Ganymede and Europa are two of the four largest moons orbiting Jupiter, known as the Galilean moons. Europa is similar in size to Earth’s Moon, while Ganymede is the largest moon in the whole ...
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This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 3 August 2014. It was captioned as follows: It was captioned as follows: English: Diagram of the internal structure of Ganymede .
The Ganymede Club is a 1995 science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield. A mystery and a thriller, [1] the story unravels in the same universe that Sheffield imagined in Cold as Ice. [2] Shortly after humanity begins colonisation of the Solar System, a trade war sets off vicious civil war that kills billions. [3]
Get ready for the final full moon of 2024: the Cold Moon. Skywatchers who want to see it at its fullest should be prepared to head out this weekend — the December full moon will reach peak ...
The book describes Ganymede as having about 1 ⁄ 3 Earth gravity but in reality it is only about 1 ⁄ 7. Heinlein also postulated that the surface of Ganymede was volcanic rock like the Moon. Subsequent discoveries have shown that Ganymede's crust is actually almost 90 percent ice or frost, covering a subsurface ocean.
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.