Ganymede moon

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Chorus waves can be converted to sound. The ones around Earth sound like singing or chirping birds. Jupiter has stronger chorus waves, and now its large moon - Ganymede - has been found to have chorus waves a million times stronger than Jupiter's.

In 1610, Galileo Galilei looked up at the night sky through a telescope of his own design. Spotting Jupiter, he noted the presence of several “luminous objects” surrounding it, which he initially took for stars. In time, he would notice that these “stars” were orbiting the planet, and realized that they were in fact Jupiter’s … Continue reading "Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede"

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The hemisphere of Ganymede that faces away from the Sun displays a great variety of terrain. In this Voyager 2 mosaic, photographed at a range of 300,000 kilometers, the ancient dark area of Regio Galileo lies at the upper left. Below it, the ray system is probably caused by water-ice, splashed out in a relatively recent impact. NASA Identifier: PLAN-PIA00081

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in the next few day after nearly five years in space. While it’s purpose is primarily to study

New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft suggests that there are mineral salts and organic compounds on the surface of Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede.

NASA's probe Juno flew by Ganymede on June 7, making it the closest any probe has come to the moon since Galileo in 2000.

Ganymede, @NASAJuno Perijove 34 - https://t.co/pv5mYqwGfY

The solar system has one star, eight planets, five dwarf planets, at least 290 moons, more than 1.3 million asteroids, and about 3,900 comets.