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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]
This flow brings clear, cold and stable conditions, relatively light winds from the south, and negative temperatures. The mean summer temperature recorded in the early 1970s was estimated as just below 0 °C (32 °F). The mean annual temperature was estimated at -9 °C (16 °F) in the same time period. There is also a little snow falling in summer.
The Ganymede Heights consist of rounded ridges with extensive rock outcrops rising to about 600 m (2,000 ft), ...
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.
The National Weather Service predicted that there was a moderate risk of "hazardous cold" across the Northern Plains, with low temperatures that could get down to -10 degrees and feel even colder ...
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Ganymede, the third Galilean satellite, has a subarctic climate, large bodies of water, and a six-month rotation period. Due to Jupiter's tidal pull, every spot on Ganymede's surface is inundated with water every three months except a small area of the south pole where the human settlement of Hydropole is located.
The 1981 Tor Books edition of The Psychotechnic League.. The Psychotechnic League is a future history created by American science fiction writer Poul Anderson.The name "Psychotechnic League" was invented by Sandra Miesel during the early 1980s, to capitalize on Anderson's better-known Polesotechnic League future history.