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It is slightly more massive than the second most massive moon, Saturn's satellite Titan, and is more than twice as massive as the Earth's Moon. It is larger than the planet Mercury, which has a diameter of 4,880 kilometres (3,030 mi) but is only 45 percent of Mercury's mass. Ganymede is the ninth-largest object in the solar system, but the ...
For simplicity and comparative purposes, the values are manually calculated assuming that the bodies are all spheres. The size of solid bodies does not include an object's atmosphere. For example, Titan looks bigger than Ganymede, but its solid body is smaller.
Two moons in the Solar System, Ganymede and Titan, are larger than the planet Mercury, and a third, Callisto, is just slightly smaller than it, although all three are less massive. Additionally, seven – Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Luna, Europa, and Triton – are larger and more massive than the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris.
The largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with
Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will be based on Rick Riordan’s second book in his series, The Sea of Monsters. In the novel, Percy embarks on a dangerous journey to rescue Grover ...
Snap, snap. Wednesday Addams and all of her dark-hearted charm are coming back for season 2, and Netflix is peeling back the spooky curtain on it all in a new behind-the-scenes video.
The following contains spoilers from the Dec. 15 episode of Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Godzilla came back in a very big way in Episode 6 of Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
The largest lake, Kraken Mare, is larger than the Caspian Sea. [75] Like Europa and Ganymede, it is believed that Titan has a subsurface ocean made of water mixed with ammonia, which can erupt to the surface of the moon and lead to cryovolcanism. [72] On 2 July 2014, NASA reported the ocean inside Titan may be "as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea".