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class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymed_(Mond)" title="Ganymed (Mond) – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Ganymed (Mond)" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF" title="غانيميد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="غانيميد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(satelite)" title="Ganimedes (satelite) – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Ganimedes (satelite)" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganim%C3%A8des_(lena)" title="Ganimèdes (lena) – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Ganimèdes (lena)" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(lluna)" title="Ganimedes (lluna) – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Ganimedes (lluna)" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanimed_(peyk)" title="Qanimed (peyk) – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qanimed (peyk)" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF_(%D9%82%D9%85%D8%B1)" title="قانمید (قمر) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="قانمید (قمر)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1_(%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9)" title="গ্যানিমিড (প্রাকৃতিক উপগ্রহ) – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="গ্যানিমিড (প্রাকৃতিক উপগ্রহ)" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(o%C4%93-chhe%E2%81%BF)" title="Ganymede (oē-chheⁿ) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Ganymede (oē-chheⁿ)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%8E%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%88)" title="Ганимед (юлдаш) – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ганимед (юлдаш)" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Ганімед (спадарожнік) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ганімед (спадарожнік)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BC%D1%8D%D0%B4_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Ганімэд (спадарожнік) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ганімэд (спадарожнік)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)" title="Ганимед (спътник) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ганимед (спътник)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimed_(satelit)" title="Ganimed (satelit) – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ganimed (satelit)" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(loarenn)" title="Ganymede (loarenn) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Ganymede (loarenn)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(sat%C3%A8l%C2%B7lit)" title="Ganimedes (satèl·lit) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ganimedes (satèl·lit)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%C3%A7%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%88)" title="Ганимед (çулташ) – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ганимед (çулташ)" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(m%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc)" title="Ganymedes (měsíc) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ganymedes (měsíc)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimede" title="Ganimede – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Ganimede" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(m%C3%A5ne)" title="Ganymedes (måne) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ganymedes (måne)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF" title="ڭانيميد – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="ڭانيميد" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymed_(Mond)" title="Ganymed (Mond) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ganymed (Mond)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(kuu)" title="Ganymedes (kuu) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ganymedes (kuu)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AE%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82_(%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%85%CF%86%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82)" title="Γανυμήδης (δορυφόρος) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γανυμήδης (δορυφόρος)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan%C3%ADmedes_(sat%C3%A9lite)" title="Ganímedes (satélite) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ganímedes (satélite)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedo_(luno)" title="Ganimedo (luno) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ganimedo (luno)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(satelitea)" title="Ganimedes (satelitea) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ganimedes (satelitea)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%AF" title="گانیمد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گانیمد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganym%C3%A8de_(lune)" title="Ganymède (lune) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ganymède (lune)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(gealach)" title="Ganymede (gealach) – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ganymede (gealach)" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(eayst)" title="Ganymede (eayst) – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Ganymede (eayst)" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(l%C3%BAa)" title="Ganimedes (lúa) – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Ganimedes (lúa)" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EB%8B%88%EB%A9%94%EB%8D%B0_(%EC%9C%84%EC%84%B1)" title="가니메데 (위성) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="가니메데 (위성)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%A4_(%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%AF)" title="Գանիմեդ (արբանյակ) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գանիմեդ (արբանյակ)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1_(%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9)" title="गैनिमीड (उपग्रह) – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="गैनिमीड (उपग्रह)" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimed_(mjesec)" title="Ganimed (mjesec) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ganimed (mjesec)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimede" title="Ganimede – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Ganimede" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimede_(satelit)" title="Ganimede (satelit) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ganimede (satelit)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan%C3%BDmedes_(tungl)" title="Ganýmedes (tungl) – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Ganýmedes (tungl)" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimede_(astronomia)" title="Ganimede (astronomia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ganimede (astronomia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%93" title="גנימד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גנימד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%94_(%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%92%E1%83%96%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98)" title="განიმედე (თანამგზავრი) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="განიმედე (თანამგზავრი)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Ганимед (серік) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ганимед (серік)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedi_(mwezi)" title="Ganimedi (mwezi) – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Ganimedi (mwezi)" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%82%D3%A7%D0%BB%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8C)" title="Ганимед (тӧлысь) – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Ганимед (тӧлысь)" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede" title="Ganymede – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Ganymede" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(satelles)" title="Ganymedes (satelles) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ganymedes (satelles)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganim%C4%93ds_(pavadonis)" title="Ganimēds (pavadonis) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ganimēds (pavadonis)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymed_(Mound)" title="Ganymed (Mound) – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Ganymed (Mound)" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedas_(palydovas)" title="Ganimedas (palydovas) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Ganimedas (palydovas)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ganymid." title=".ganymid. – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title=".ganymid." data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>La .lojban.</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimede_(corp_celest)" title="Ganimede (corp celest) – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Ganimede (corp celest)" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes" title="Ganymedes – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ganymedes" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0)" title="Ганимед (месечина) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Ганимед (месечина)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D" title="ഗാനിമേഡ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഗാനിമേഡ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1_(%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9)" title="गॅनिमीड (उपग्रह) – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="गॅनिमीड (उपग्रह)" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(bulan)" title="Ganymede (bulan) – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Ganymede (bulan)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(%C3%B4i-s%C4%ADng)" title="Ganymede (ôi-sĭng) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Ganymede (ôi-sĭng)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan%C3%ADmedes_(sat%C3%A9lite)" title="Ganímedes (satélite) – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Ganímedes (satélite)" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA_(%E1%80%82%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9F%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B6%E1%80%9C)" title="ဂျန်နမိတ် (ဂြိုဟ်ရံလ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဂျန်နမိတ် (ဂြိုဟ်ရံလ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(maan)" title="Ganymedes (maan) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ganymedes (maan)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%83%87_(%E8%A1%9B%E6%98%9F)" title="ガニメデ (衛星) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ガニメデ (衛星)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedes_(m%C3%A5ne)" title="Ganymedes (måne) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ganymedes (måne)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiterm%C3%A5nen_Ganymedes" title="Jupitermånen Ganymedes – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Jupitermånen Ganymedes" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganim%C3%A8des_(luna)" title="Ganimèdes (luna) – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Ganimèdes (luna)" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF" title="گانیمید – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="گانیمید" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%D9%8A%DA%89" title="ګانميډ – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ګانميډ" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%A0%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%82%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%93%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%98%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%8A_(%E1%9E%96%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9A%E1%9F%87%E2%80%8B%E1%9E%85%E1%9F%90%E1%9E%93%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%91)" title="ហ្គានីមេដ (ព្រះ​ច័ន្ទ) – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ហ្គានីមេដ (ព្រះ​ច័ន្ទ)" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymed_(Maand)" title="Ganymed (Maand) – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Ganymed (Maand)" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganimedes_(ksi%C4%99%C5%BCyc)" title="Ganimedes (księżyc) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ganimedes (księżyc)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan%C3%ADmedes_(sat%C3%A9lite)" title="Ganímedes (satélite) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ganímedes (satélite)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(satelit)" title="Ganymede (satelit) – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ganymede (satelit)" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a 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The bright crater on the lower left is the Tros crater." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png/290px-Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png" decoding="async" width="290" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png/435px-Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png/580px-Ganymede_-_Perijove_34_Composite.png 2x" data-file-width="3445" data-file-height="3445" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Ganymede as imaged by the <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i> spacecraft June 2021<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:Wheat">Discovery<sup id="cite_ref-SidereusNuncius_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SidereusNuncius-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planet_discoverers" title="List of minor planet discoverers">Discovered&#160;by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Simon_Marius" title="Simon Marius">Simon Marius</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Discovery&#160;date</th><td class="infobox-data">January 7, 1610</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:Wheat">Designations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: &#39;g&#39; in &#39;guy&#39;">ɡ</span><span title="/æ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;bad&#39;">æ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/ɪ/: &#39;i&#39; in &#39;kit&#39;">ɪ</span><span title="&#39;m&#39; in &#39;my&#39;">m</span><span title="/iː/: &#39;ee&#39; in &#39;fleece&#39;">iː</span><span title="&#39;d&#39; in &#39;dye&#39;">d</span></span>/</a></span></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">GAN</span>-im-eed</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Named after</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Γανυμήδης</a></span></span>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Ganymēdēs</i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_astronomy" title="Provisional designation in astronomy">Alternative names</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">Jupiter <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1003224644">.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral{font-family:"Nimbus Roman No9 L","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:118%;line-height:1}.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral-a{border:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral-t{border-top:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral-v{border:solid;border-width:0 1px;padding:0 2px}.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral-h{border:solid;border-width:1px 0}.mw-parser-output .roman-numeral-tv{border:1px solid;border-bottom:none;padding:0 2px}</style><span class="roman-numeral" title="Roman numeral">III</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demonyms_of_astronomical_bodies" title="List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies">Adjectives</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Ganymedian,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br />Ganymedean<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/ɡ/: &#39;g&#39; in &#39;guy&#39;">ɡ</span><span title="/æ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;bad&#39;">æ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;m&#39; in &#39;my&#39;">m</span><span title="/iː/: &#39;ee&#39; in &#39;fleece&#39;">iː</span><span title="&#39;d&#39; in &#39;dye&#39;">d</span><span title="/i/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;happy&#39;">i</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/ən/: &#39;on&#39; in &#39;button&#39;">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:Wheat"><a href="/wiki/Osculating_orbit" title="Osculating orbit">Orbital characteristics</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Apsis" title="Apsis">Periapsis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7009106920000000000♠"></span>1<span style="margin-left:.25em;">069</span><span style="margin-left:.25em;">200</span>&#160;km</span><sup id="cite_ref-periapsiscomment_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-periapsiscomment-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Apsis" title="Apsis">Apoapsis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7009107160000000000♠"></span>1<span style="margin-left:.25em;">071</span><span style="margin-left:.25em;">600</span>&#160;km</span><sup id="cite_ref-apoapsiscomment_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apoapsiscomment-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">Semi-major axis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7009107040000000000♠"></span>1<span style="margin-left:.25em;">070</span><span style="margin-left:.25em;">400</span>&#160;km</span><sup id="cite_ref-orbit_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-orbit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">Eccentricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6997130000000000000♠"></span>0.0013</span><sup id="cite_ref-orbit_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-orbit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Mean <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7003193600000000000♠"></span>1.936&#160;<a href="/wiki/Gram_per_cubic_centimetre" title="Gram per cubic centimetre">g/cm<sup>3</sup></a></span> (0.351 Earths)<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Surface_gravity" title="Surface gravity">Surface gravity</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000142800000000000♠"></span>1.428&#160;<a href="/wiki/Metre_per_second_squared" title="Metre per second squared">m/s<sup>2</sup></a></span> (0.146 <i><a href="/wiki/G-force" title="G-force">g</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-surfacegravitycomment_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-surfacegravitycomment-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Synodic_rotation_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Synodic rotation period">Synodic rotation period</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Synchronous_rotation" class="mw-redirect" title="Synchronous rotation">synchronous</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Axial_tilt" title="Axial tilt">Axial tilt</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0–0.33°<sup id="cite_ref-Bills2005_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bills2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (to Jupiter's equator)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">North&#160;pole <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Right_ascension" title="Right ascension">right ascension</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data">268.20°<sup id="cite_ref-iau2015_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iau2015-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">North&#160;pole <a href="/wiki/Declination" title="Declination">declination</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">64.57°<sup id="cite_ref-iau2015_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iau2015-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Albedo" title="Albedo">Albedo</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6999430000000000000♠"></span>0.43<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.02</span><sup id="cite_ref-jplfact_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jplfact-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><table style="border-spacing: 0px; width:100%; border:none; margin:0; line-height:1.2em; white-space:nowrap"><tbody><tr> <th style="width:33%; padding-right:0.25em; text-align:left">Surface <a href="/wiki/Temperature" title="Temperature">temp.</a></th> <th style="padding-right:0.25em; text-align:center">min</th> <th style="padding-right:0.25em; text-align:center">mean</th> <th style="padding-right:0.25em; text-align:center">max</th> </tr><tr> <th style="padding-left:1.0em">K</th> <td style="text-align:center">70<sup id="cite_ref-Delitsky1998_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Delitsky1998-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td style="text-align:center">110<sup id="cite_ref-Delitsky1998_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Delitsky1998-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td style="text-align:center">152<sup id="cite_ref-Orton1996_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Orton1996-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> </tr><tr> <th style="padding-left:1.0em">°C</th> <td style="text-align:center">−203</td> <td style="text-align:center">−163</td> <td style="text-align:center">−121</td> </tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">Apparent magnitude</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">4.61 (<a href="/wiki/Opposition_(astronomy)" title="Opposition (astronomy)">opposition</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-jplfact_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jplfact-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br />4.38 (in 1951)<sup id="cite_ref-horizons_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-horizons-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Angular_diameter" title="Angular diameter">Angular diameter</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">1.2 to 1.8 <a href="/wiki/Minute_and_second_of_arc" title="Minute and second of arc">arcseconds</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:Wheat">Atmosphere</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Surface <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure" title="Atmospheric pressure">pressure</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0.2–1.2&#160;μPa (1.97<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>−12</sup>–1.18<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>−11</sup>&#160;atm)<sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_chemistry#Atmospheric_composition" title="Atmospheric chemistry">Composition by volume</a></th><td class="infobox-data">mostly <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ganymede</b>, or <b>Jupiter III</b>, is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size" title="List of Solar System objects by size">largest and most massive</a> <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">natural satellite</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, and in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>. Despite being the only moon in the Solar System with a substantial <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_field" title="Magnetic field">magnetic field</a>, it is the largest Solar System object without a substantial atmosphere. Like <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>'s largest moon <a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a>, it is larger than the planet <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a>, but has somewhat less <a href="/wiki/Surface_gravity" title="Surface gravity">surface gravity</a> than Mercury, <a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> due to its lower density compared to the three.<sup id="cite_ref-nasa.gany_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nasa.gany-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede <a href="/wiki/Orbit" title="Orbit">orbits</a> Jupiter in roughly seven days and is in a 1:2:4 <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonance</a> with the moons <a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a>, respectively. </p><p>Ganymede is composed of <a href="/wiki/Silicate" title="Silicate">silicate rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Water_substance" class="mw-redirect" title="Water substance">water</a> in approximately equal proportions. It is a fully <a href="/wiki/Planetary_differentiation" title="Planetary differentiation">differentiated</a> body with an iron-rich, <a href="/wiki/Planetary_core" title="Planetary core">liquid metallic core</a>, giving it the lowest <a href="/wiki/Moment_of_inertia_factor" title="Moment of inertia factor">moment of inertia factor</a> of any solid body in the Solar System. Its <a href="/wiki/Planetary_oceanography" title="Planetary oceanography">internal ocean</a> potentially contains more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.<sup id="cite_ref-Ocean_Hubble_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ocean_Hubble-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-clubsandwich_2014_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clubsandwich_2014-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vance_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vance-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20140501c_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20140501c-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ganymede's <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_field" title="Magnetic field">magnetic field</a> is probably created by <a href="/wiki/Convection" title="Convection">convection</a> within its core, and influenced by tidal forces from Jupiter's far greater magnetic field.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede has a thin <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a> <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere" title="Atmosphere">atmosphere</a> that includes O, O<sub>2</sub>, and possibly O<sub>3</sub> (<a href="/wiki/Ozone" title="Ozone">ozone</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Atomic_hydrogen" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic hydrogen">Atomic hydrogen</a> is a minor atmospheric constituent. Whether Ganymede has an <a href="/wiki/Ionosphere" title="Ionosphere">ionosphere</a> associated with its atmosphere is unresolved.<sup id="cite_ref-Eviatar2001_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eviatar2001-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ganymede's surface is composed of two main types of terrain, the first of which are lighter regions, generally crosscut by extensive grooves and ridges, dating from slightly less than 4 billion years ago, covering two-thirds of Ganymede. The cause of the light terrain's disrupted geology is not fully known, but may be the result of <a href="/wiki/Tectonics" title="Tectonics">tectonic</a> activity due to <a href="/wiki/Tidal_heating" title="Tidal heating">tidal heating</a>. The second terrain type are darker regions saturated with <a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">impact craters</a>, which are dated to four billion years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ganymede's discovery is credited to <a href="/wiki/Simon_Marius" title="Simon Marius">Simon Marius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a>, who both observed it in 1610,<sup id="cite_ref-SidereusNuncius_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SidereusNuncius-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Marius_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marius-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as the third of the <a href="/wiki/Galilean_moon" class="mw-redirect" title="Galilean moon">Galilean moons</a>, the first group of objects discovered orbiting another planet.<sup id="cite_ref-Planetary_Society_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Planetary_Society-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its name was soon suggested by astronomer Simon Marius, after the <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">mythological</a> <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Trojan</a> prince desired by <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> (the Greek counterpart of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>), who carried him off to be the cupbearer of the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-Naming_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naming-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></i>, several spacecraft have explored Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-Pioneer_11_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pioneer_11-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program">Voyager</a> probes, <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_2" title="Voyager 2">Voyager 2</a></i>, refined measurements of its size, while <i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">Galileo</a></i> discovered its underground ocean and magnetic field. The next planned mission to the <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter" title="Moons of Jupiter">Jovian system</a> is the <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer" title="Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer">Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer</a> (JUICE), which was launched in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-esa-juice_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-esa-juice-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After flybys of all three icy Galilean moons, it is planned to enter orbit around Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-selection_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-selection-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede,_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg/250px-Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg/375px-Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg/500px-Ganymede%2C_Earth_%26_Moon_size_comparison.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2026" /></a><figcaption>Size comparison of Earth, the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> (top left), and Ganymede (bottom left)</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chinese astronomical records report that in 365 BC, <a href="/wiki/Gan_De" title="Gan De">Gan De</a> detected what might have been a moon of Jupiter, probably Ganymede, with the naked eye.<sup id="cite_ref-ads.793b_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ads.793b-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, Gan De reported the color of the companion as reddish, which is puzzling since moons are too faint for their color to be perceived with the naked eye.<sup id="cite_ref-encyc_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyc-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Shi_Shen" title="Shi Shen">Shi Shen</a> and Gan De together made fairly accurate observations of the five major planets.<sup id="cite_ref-Deng2011_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deng2011-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 7, 1610, <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a> used a telescope to observe what he thought were three <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a> near Jupiter, including what turned out to be Ganymede, <a href="/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a>, and one body that turned out to be the combined light from <a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a> and <a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a>; the next night he noticed that they had moved. On January 13, he saw all four at once for the first time, but had seen each of the moons before this date at least once. By January 15, Galileo concluded that the stars were actually bodies orbiting <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SidereusNuncius_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SidereusNuncius-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Marius_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marius-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Galileo claimed the right to name the moons he had discovered. He considered "Cosmian Stars" and settled on "<a href="/wiki/Galilean_Satellites#Dedication_to_the_Medicis" class="mw-redirect" title="Galilean Satellites">Medicean Stars</a>", in honor of <a href="/wiki/Cosimo_II_de%27_Medici" title="Cosimo II de&#39; Medici">Cosimo II de' Medici</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Naming_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naming-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The French astronomer <a href="/wiki/Nicolas-Claude_Fabri_de_Peiresc" title="Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc">Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc</a> suggested individual names from the <a href="/wiki/Medici" class="mw-redirect" title="Medici">Medici</a> family for the moons, but his proposal was not taken up.<sup id="cite_ref-Naming_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naming-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Simon_Marius" title="Simon Marius">Simon Marius</a>, who had originally claimed to have found the Galilean satellites,<sup id="cite_ref-College_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-College-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> tried to name the moons the "Saturn of Jupiter", the "Jupiter of Jupiter" (this was Ganymede), the "Venus of Jupiter", and the "Mercury of Jupiter", another nomenclature that never caught on. Later on, after finding out about a suggestion from <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a>, Marius agreed with Kepler's proposal and so he then proposed a naming system based on <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a> instead. This final Kepler/Marius proposal was ultimately successful.<sup id="cite_ref-Naming_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naming-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Jupiter is much blamed by the poets on account of his irregular loves. Three maidens are especially mentioned as having been clandestinely courted by Jupiter with success. Io, daughter of the River Inachus, Callisto of Lycaon, Europa of Agenor. Then there was Ganymede, the handsome son of King Tros, whom Jupiter, having taken the form of an eagle, transported to heaven on his back, as poets fabulously tell... I think, therefore, that I shall not have done amiss if the First is called by me Io, the Second Europa, the Third, on account of its majesty of light, Ganymede, the Fourth Callisto...<sup id="cite_ref-Helden_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Helden-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This name and those of the other Galilean satellites fell into disfavor for a considerable time, and were not in common use until the mid-20th century. In much of the earlier astronomical literature, Ganymede is referred to instead by its Roman numeral designation, <span class="nowrap">Jupiter III</span> (a system introduced by Galileo), in other words "the third satellite of Jupiter". Following the discovery of moons of Saturn, a naming system based on that of Kepler and Marius was used for Jupiter's moons.<sup id="cite_ref-Naming_34-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naming-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede is the only Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a male figure—like Io, Europa, and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. </p><p>In English, the Galilean satellites Io, Europa and Callisto have the Latin spellings of their names, but the Latin form of Ganymede is <i>Ganymēdēs</i>, which would be pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/ɡ/: &#39;g&#39; in &#39;guy&#39;">ɡ</span><span title="/æ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;bad&#39;">æ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/ɪ/: &#39;i&#39; in &#39;kit&#39;">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;m&#39; in &#39;my&#39;">m</span><span title="/iː/: &#39;ee&#39; in &#39;fleece&#39;">iː</span><span title="&#39;d&#39; in &#39;dye&#39;">d</span><span title="/iː/: &#39;ee&#39; in &#39;fleece&#39;">iː</span><span title="&#39;z&#39; in &#39;zoom&#39;">z</span></span>/</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the final syllable is dropped in English, perhaps under the influence of French <i>Ganymède</i> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">&#91;ɡanimɛd&#93;</a></span>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orbit_and_rotation">Orbit and rotation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Orbit and rotation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif/220px-Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif/330px-Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Galilean_moon_Laplace_resonance_animation_2.gif 2x" data-file-width="365" data-file-height="245" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Laplace_resonance" class="mw-redirect" title="Laplace resonance">Laplace resonance</a> of Ganymede, <a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a> (conjunctions are highlighted by color changes)</figcaption></figure> <p>Ganymede <a href="/wiki/Orbit" title="Orbit">orbits</a> Jupiter at a distance of 1,070,400 kilometres (665,100&#160;mi), third among the Galilean satellites,<sup id="cite_ref-Planetary_Society_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Planetary_Society-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and completes a revolution every seven days and three hours (7.155 days<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>). Like most known moons, Ganymede is <a href="/wiki/Tidal_locking" title="Tidal locking">tidally locked</a>, with one side always facing toward the planet, hence its day is also seven days and three hours.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Grand_Tour_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Grand_Tour-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its orbit is very slightly eccentric and inclined to the Jovian <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">equator</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">eccentricity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Inclination" class="mw-redirect" title="Inclination">inclination</a> changing <a href="/wiki/Almost_periodic_function" title="Almost periodic function">quasi-periodically</a> due to solar and planetary gravitational <a href="/wiki/Perturbation_(astronomy)" title="Perturbation (astronomy)">perturbations</a> on a timescale of centuries. The ranges of change are 0.0009–0.0022 and 0.05–0.32°, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-Musotto2002_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musotto2002-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These orbital variations cause the <a href="/wiki/Axial_tilt" title="Axial tilt">axial tilt</a> (the angle between the rotational and orbital axes) to vary between 0 and 0.33°.<sup id="cite_ref-Bills2005_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bills2005-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ganymede participates in <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonances</a> with Europa and Io: for every orbit of Ganymede, Europa orbits twice and Io orbits four times.<sup id="cite_ref-Musotto2002_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musotto2002-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SPACE.com_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPACE.com-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_conjunction" class="mw-redirect" title="Astronomical conjunction">Conjunctions</a> (alignment on the same side of Jupiter) between Io and Europa occur when Io is at <a href="/wiki/Periapsis" class="mw-redirect" title="Periapsis">periapsis</a> and Europa at <a href="/wiki/Apoapsis" class="mw-redirect" title="Apoapsis">apoapsis</a>. Conjunctions between Europa and Ganymede occur when Europa is at periapsis.<sup id="cite_ref-Musotto2002_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musotto2002-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The longitudes of the Io–Europa and Europa–Ganymede conjunctions change at the same rate, making triple conjunctions impossible. Such a complicated resonance is called the <a href="/wiki/Laplace_resonance" class="mw-redirect" title="Laplace resonance">Laplace resonance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The current Laplace resonance is unable to pump the orbital eccentricity of Ganymede to a higher value.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The value of about 0.0013 is probably a remnant from a previous epoch, when such pumping was possible.<sup id="cite_ref-SPACE.com_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPACE.com-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Ganymedian orbital eccentricity is somewhat puzzling; if it is not pumped now it should have decayed long ago due to the tidal <a href="/wiki/Dissipation" title="Dissipation">dissipation</a> in the interior of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This means that the last episode of the eccentricity excitation happened only several hundred million years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Because Ganymede's orbital eccentricity is relatively low—on average 0.0015<sup id="cite_ref-SPACE.com_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPACE.com-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>—tidal heating is negligible now.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in the past Ganymede may have passed through one or more Laplace-like resonances<sup id="cite_ref-laplaceres_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-laplaceres-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that were able to pump the orbital eccentricity to a value as high as 0.01–0.02.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This probably caused a significant tidal heating of the interior of Ganymede; the formation of the grooved terrain may be a result of one or more heating episodes.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are two hypotheses for the origin of the Laplace resonance among Io, Europa, and Ganymede: that it is primordial and has existed from the beginning of the Solar System;<sup id="cite_ref-Peale2002_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peale2002-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or that it developed after the <a href="/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System" title="Formation and evolution of the Solar System">formation of the Solar System</a>. A possible sequence of events for the latter scenario is as follows: Io raised tides on Jupiter, causing Io's orbit to expand (due to conservation of momentum) until it encountered the 2:1 resonance with Europa; after that, the expansion continued, but some of the angular <a href="/wiki/Moment_(physics)" title="Moment (physics)">moment</a> was transferred to Europa as the resonance caused its orbit to expand as well; the process continued until Europa encountered the 2:1 resonance with Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Eventually the drift rates of conjunctions between all three moons were synchronized and locked in the Laplace resonance.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997a_50-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997a-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_characteristics">Physical characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Physical characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg/220px-Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg/330px-Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg/440px-Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of Ganymede centered over 45° W. longitude; dark areas are Perrine (upper) and Nicholson (lower) regions; prominent craters are Tros (upper right) and Cisti (lower left).</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_(26670869304).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png/220px-Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png/330px-Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png/440px-Ganymede_-_Voyager_2_%2826670869304%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3496" data-file-height="1818" /></a><figcaption>Three high-resolution views of Ganymede taken by <a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a> near closest approach on July 9, 1979</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Size">Size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size" title="List of Solar System objects by size">List of Solar System objects by size</a></div> <p>With a diameter of about 5,270 kilometres (3,270&#160;mi) and a mass of 1.48<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>20</sup> tonnes (1.48<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>23</sup>&#160;kg; 3.26<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>23</sup>&#160;lb), Ganymede is the largest and most massive <a href="/wiki/Satellite_system_(astronomy)" title="Satellite system (astronomy)">moon</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is slightly more massive than the second most massive moon, Saturn's satellite <a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a>, and is more than twice as massive as the Earth's Moon. It is larger than the planet <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a>, which has a diameter of 4,880 kilometres (3,030&#160;mi) but is only 45 percent of Mercury's mass. Ganymede is the ninth-largest object in the solar system, but the tenth-most massive. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composition">Composition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The average <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a> of Ganymede, 1.936 g/cm<sup>3</sup> (a bit greater than Callisto's), suggests a composition of about equal parts rocky material and mostly water <a href="/wiki/Ice_(planetary_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ice (planetary science)">ices</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of the water is liquid, forming an underground ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20150315_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20150315-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Mass_fraction_(chemistry)" title="Mass fraction (chemistry)">mass fraction</a> of ices is between 46 and 50 percent, which is slightly lower than that in Callisto.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some additional volatile ices such as <a href="/wiki/Ammonia" title="Ammonia">ammonia</a> may also be present.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Spohn2003_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spohn2003-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The exact composition of Ganymede's <a href="/wiki/Rock_(geology)" title="Rock (geology)">rock</a> is not known, but is probably close to the composition of <a href="/wiki/L_chondrite" title="L chondrite">L</a>/<a href="/wiki/LL_chondrite" title="LL chondrite">LL type</a> <a href="/wiki/Ordinary_chondrite" title="Ordinary chondrite">ordinary chondrites</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which are characterized by less total iron, less metallic iron and more <a href="/wiki/Iron_oxide" title="Iron oxide">iron oxide</a> than <a href="/wiki/H_chondrite" title="H chondrite">H chondrites</a>. The weight ratio of iron to <a href="/wiki/Silicon" title="Silicon">silicon</a> ranges between 1.05 and 1.27 in Ganymede, whereas the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">solar ratio</a> is around 1.8.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surface_features">Surface features</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Surface features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Ganymede" title="List of geological features on Ganymede">List of geological features on Ganymede</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:184px;max-width:184px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:182px;max-width:182px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg/180px-PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg/270px-PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg/360px-PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1041" data-file-height="1445" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:182px;max-width:182px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg/180px-PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg/270px-PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg/360px-PIA24682-Ganymede-DarkSide-JupiterMoon-20210607.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><div align="center">Ganymede (<i>Juno</i>; June 7, 2021)</div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tros_Crater,_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png/220px-Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png/330px-Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png/440px-Tros_Crater%2C_Ganymede_-_PJ34-1_-_Detail_-_Map_Projected.png 2x" data-file-width="1175" data-file-height="1232" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tros_(crater)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Tros (crater) (page does not exist)">Tros</a> crater (<i>Juno</i>; June 7, 2021)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede-moon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Ganymede-moon.jpg/220px-Ganymede-moon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Ganymede-moon.jpg/330px-Ganymede-moon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Ganymede-moon.jpg/440px-Ganymede-moon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="687" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>Enhanced-color <i>Galileo</i> spacecraft image of Ganymede's trailing hemisphere.<sup id="cite_ref-Spaceflight_Now_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spaceflight_Now-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The crater Tashmetum's prominent rays are at lower right, and the large ejecta field of Hershef at upper right. Part of dark Nicholson Regio is at lower left, bounded on its upper right by Harpagia Sulcus.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg/220px-PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg/330px-PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg/440px-PIA26075-JupiterMoon-GanymedeTerrain-20231030.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6385" data-file-height="3119" /></a><figcaption>Ganymede grooved terrain<br />(<i>Juno</i>; June 7, 2021)</figcaption></figure> <p>Ganymede's surface has an <a href="/wiki/Albedo" title="Albedo">albedo</a> of about 43 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-Calvin1995_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calvin1995-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Water ice seems to be ubiquitous on its surface, with a mass fraction of 50–90 percent,<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> significantly more than in Ganymede as a whole. Near-infrared <a href="/wiki/Spectroscopy" title="Spectroscopy">spectroscopy</a> has revealed the presence of strong water ice <a href="/wiki/Absorption_band" title="Absorption band">absorption bands</a> at wavelengths of 1.04, 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 <a href="/wiki/Micrometre" title="Micrometre">μm</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Calvin1995_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calvin1995-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The grooved terrain is brighter and has a more icy composition than the dark terrain.<sup id="cite_ref-RESA_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RESA-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The analysis of high-resolution, <a href="/wiki/Near-infrared" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-infrared">near-infrared</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet" title="Ultraviolet">UV</a> <a href="/wiki/Spectrum" title="Spectrum">spectra</a> obtained by the <a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)"><i>Galileo</i></a> spacecraft and from Earth observations has revealed various non-water materials: <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide" title="Sulfur dioxide">sulfur dioxide</a> and, possibly, <a href="/wiki/Cyanogen" title="Cyanogen">cyanogen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydrogen sulfate">hydrogen sulfate</a> and various <a href="/wiki/Organic_compound" title="Organic compound">organic compounds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCord1998_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCord1998-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Galileo</i> results have also shown <a href="/wiki/Magnesium_sulfate" title="Magnesium sulfate">magnesium sulfate</a> (MgSO<sub>4</sub>) and, possibly, <a href="/wiki/Sodium_sulfate" title="Sodium sulfate">sodium sulfate</a> (Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>) on Ganymede's surface.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Grand_Tour_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Grand_Tour-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCord2001_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCord2001-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These salts may originate from the subsurface ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-McCord2001_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCord2001-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg/220px-Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg/330px-Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg/440px-Craters_on_Ganymede.jpg 2x" data-file-width="813" data-file-height="753" /></a><figcaption>The craters <a href="/wiki/Gula_(crater)" title="Gula (crater)">Gula</a> and <a href="/wiki/Achelous_(crater)" title="Achelous (crater)">Achelous</a> (bottom), in the grooved terrain of Ganymede, with <a href="/wiki/Ejecta_blanket" title="Ejecta blanket">ejecta</a> "<a href="/wiki/Pedestal_crater" title="Pedestal crater">pedestals</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Rampart_crater" title="Rampart crater">ramparts</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Ganymedian surface albedo is very asymmetric; the leading hemisphere<sup id="cite_ref-hemispherecomment_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hemispherecomment-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is brighter than the trailing one.<sup id="cite_ref-Calvin1995_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calvin1995-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This is similar to Europa, but the reverse for Callisto.<sup id="cite_ref-Calvin1995_58-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calvin1995-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The trailing hemisphere of Ganymede appears to be enriched in sulfur dioxide.<sup id="cite_ref-Domingue1996_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domingue1996-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Domingue1998_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domingue1998-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The distribution of carbon dioxide does not demonstrate any hemispheric asymmetry, but little or no carbon dioxide is observed near the poles.<sup id="cite_ref-McCord1998_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCord1998-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hibbitts2003_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hibbitts2003-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">Impact craters</a> on Ganymede (except one) do not show any enrichment in carbon dioxide, which also distinguishes it from Callisto. Ganymede's carbon dioxide gas was probably depleted in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-Hibbitts2003_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hibbitts2003-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede's surface is a mix of two types of terrain: very old, highly cratered, dark regions and somewhat younger (but still ancient), lighter regions marked with an extensive array of grooves and ridges. The dark terrain, which comprises about one-third of the surface,<sup id="cite_ref-Patterson2007_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Patterson2007-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> contains clays and organic materials that could indicate the composition of the impactors from which Jovian satellites accreted.<sup id="cite_ref-Pappalardo2001_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pappalardo2001-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The heating mechanism required for the formation of the grooved terrain on Ganymede is an unsolved problem in the <a href="/wiki/Planetary_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Planetary sciences">planetary sciences</a>. The modern view is that the grooved terrain is mainly <a href="/wiki/Tectonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Tectonic">tectonic</a> in nature.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cryovolcano" title="Cryovolcano">Cryovolcanism</a> is thought to have played only a minor role, if any.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The forces that caused the strong stresses in the Ganymedian ice <a href="/wiki/Lithosphere" title="Lithosphere">lithosphere</a> necessary to initiate the tectonic activity may be connected to the <a href="/wiki/Tidal_heating" title="Tidal heating">tidal heating</a> events in the past, possibly caused when the satellite passed through unstable orbital resonances.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Showman1997b_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1997b-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The tidal flexing of the ice may have heated the interior and strained the lithosphere, leading to the development of cracks and <a href="/wiki/Horst_and_graben" title="Horst and graben">horst and graben</a> faulting, which erased the old, dark terrain on 70 percent of the surface.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bland2007_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bland2007-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The formation of the grooved terrain may also be connected with the early core formation and subsequent tidal heating of Ganymede's interior, which may have caused a slight expansion of Ganymede by one to six percent due to <a href="/wiki/Phase_transition" title="Phase transition">phase transitions</a> in ice and <a href="/wiki/Thermal_expansion" title="Thermal expansion">thermal expansion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During subsequent evolution deep, hot water <a href="/wiki/Plume_(hydrodynamics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Plume (hydrodynamics)">plumes</a> may have risen from the core to the surface, leading to the tectonic deformation of the lithosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-Barr_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barr-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Radiogenic_heat" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiogenic heat">Radiogenic heating</a> within the satellite is the most relevant current heat source, contributing, for instance, to ocean depth. Research models have found that if the orbital eccentricity were an order of magnitude greater than currently (as it may have been in the past), tidal heating would be a more substantial heat source than radiogenic heating.<sup id="cite_ref-gra.6_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gra.6-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cratering is seen on both types of terrain, but is especially extensive on the dark terrain: it appears to be saturated with impact craters and has evolved largely through impact events.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The brighter, grooved terrain contains many fewer impact features, which have been only of minor importance to its tectonic evolution.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The density of cratering indicates an age of 4&#160;billion years for the dark terrain, similar to the highlands of the Moon, and a somewhat younger age for the grooved terrain (but how much younger is uncertain).<sup id="cite_ref-Zahnle1998_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zahnle1998-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede may have experienced a period of heavy cratering 3.5 to 4&#160;billion years ago similar to that of the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-Zahnle1998_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zahnle1998-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> If true, the vast majority of impacts happened in that epoch, whereas the cratering rate has been much smaller since.<sup id="cite_ref-nineplanets.org-Ganymede_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nineplanets.org-Ganymede-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Craters both overlay and are crosscut by the groove systems, indicating that some of the grooves are quite ancient. Relatively young craters with rays of ejecta are also visible.<sup id="cite_ref-nineplanets.org-Ganymede_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nineplanets.org-Ganymede-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ganymede_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganymede-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymedian craters are flatter than those on the Moon and Mercury. This is probably due to the relatively weak nature of Ganymede's icy crust, which can (or could) flow and thereby soften the relief. Ancient craters whose relief has disappeared leave only a "ghost" of a crater known as a <a href="/wiki/Palimpsest_(planetary_astronomy)" title="Palimpsest (planetary astronomy)">palimpsest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nineplanets.org-Ganymede_73-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nineplanets.org-Ganymede-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One significant feature on Ganymede is a dark plain named <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Regio" title="Galileo Regio">Galileo Regio</a>, which contains a series of concentric grooves, or furrows, likely created during a period of geologic activity.<sup id="cite_ref-Casacchia_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casacchia-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ganymede also has polar caps, likely composed of water frost. The frost extends to 40° latitude.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Grand_Tour_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Grand_Tour-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These polar caps were first seen by the <a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program"><i>Voyager</i></a> spacecraft. Theories on the formation of the caps include the migration of water to higher latitudes and the bombardment of the ice by plasma. Data from <i>Galileo</i> suggests the latter is correct.<sup id="cite_ref-Polar_caps_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Polar_caps-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The presence of a magnetic field on Ganymede results in more intense charged particle bombardment of its surface in the unprotected polar regions; sputtering then leads to redistribution of water molecules, with frost migrating to locally colder areas within the polar terrain.<sup id="cite_ref-Polar_caps_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Polar_caps-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A crater named <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anat_(crater)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Anat (crater) (page does not exist)">Anat</a> provides the reference point for measuring longitude on Ganymede. By definition, Anat is at 128° longitude.<sup id="cite_ref-iau.table2_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iau.table2-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The 0° longitude directly faces Jupiter, and unless stated otherwise longitude increases toward the west.<sup id="cite_ref-targetcoordsys_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-targetcoordsys-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internal_structure">Internal structure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Internal structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ganymede appears to be fully <a href="/wiki/Planetary_differentiation" title="Planetary differentiation">differentiated</a>, with an internal structure consisting of an <a href="/wiki/Iron(II)_sulfide" title="Iron(II) sulfide">iron-sulfide</a>–iron <a href="/wiki/Core_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Core (geology)">core</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Silicate" title="Silicate">silicate</a> <a href="/wiki/Mantle_(geology)" title="Mantle (geology)">mantle</a>, and outer layers of water ice and liquid water.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sohl2002_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sohl2002-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-Bhatia2017_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhatia2017-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The precise thicknesses of the different layers in the interior of Ganymede depend on the assumed composition of silicates (fraction of <a href="/wiki/Olivine" title="Olivine">olivine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pyroxene" title="Pyroxene">pyroxene</a>) and amount of <a href="/wiki/Sulfur" title="Sulfur">sulfur</a> in the core.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sohl2002_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sohl2002-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005b_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005b-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005c_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005c-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ganymede has the lowest <a href="/wiki/Moment_of_inertia_factor" title="Moment of inertia factor">moment of inertia factor</a>, 0.31,<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> among the solid Solar System bodies. This is a consequence of its substantial water content and fully differentiated interior. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Subsurface_oceans">Subsurface oceans</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Subsurface oceans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede_diagram.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ganymede_diagram.svg/440px-Ganymede_diagram.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ganymede_diagram.svg/660px-Ganymede_diagram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ganymede_diagram.svg/880px-Ganymede_diagram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="1700" /></a><figcaption>Artist's cut-away representation of the internal structure of Ganymede. Layers drawn to scale.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1970s, NASA scientists first suspected that Ganymede had a thick ocean between two layers of ice, one on the surface and one beneath a liquid ocean and atop the rocky mantle.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-clubsandwich_2014_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clubsandwich_2014-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sohl2002_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sohl2002-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Freeman2006_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freeman2006-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-amount_of_water_in_ocean_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amount_of_water_in_ocean-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the 1990s, NASA's <i>Galileo</i> mission flew by Ganymede, and found indications of such a subsurface ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20150315_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20150315-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An analysis published in 2014, taking into account the realistic thermodynamics for water and effects of salt, suggests that Ganymede might have a stack of several ocean layers separated by different <a href="/wiki/Phases_of_ice" title="Phases of ice">phases of ice</a>, with the lowest liquid layer adjacent to the rocky <a href="/wiki/Mantle_(geology)" title="Mantle (geology)">mantle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clubsandwich_2014_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clubsandwich_2014-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vance_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vance-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20140501c_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20140501c-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hubble_2015_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubble_2015-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Water–rock contact may be an important factor in the <a href="/wiki/Abiogenesis" title="Abiogenesis">origin of life</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clubsandwich_2014_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clubsandwich_2014-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The analysis also notes that the extreme depths involved (~800&#160;km to the rocky "seafloor") mean that temperatures at the bottom of a convective (adiabatic) ocean can be up to 40 K higher than those at the ice–water interface. </p><p>In March 2015, scientists reported that measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope of how the <a href="/wiki/Aurora" title="Aurora">aurorae</a> moved confirmed that Ganymede has a subsurface ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20150315_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20150315-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A large saltwater ocean affects Ganymede's magnetic field, and consequently, its aurorae.<sup id="cite_ref-Ocean_Hubble_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ocean_Hubble-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hubble_2015_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubble_2015-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sciencedaily1503_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencedaily1503-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sswater1_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sswater1-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The evidence suggests that Ganymede's oceans might be the largest in the entire Solar System.<sup id="cite_ref-Sci_Am_2017_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sci_Am_2017-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These observations were later supported by <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i>, which detected various salts and other compounds on Ganymede's surface, including <a href="/wiki/Hydrohalite" title="Hydrohalite">hydrated sodium chloride</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ammonium_chloride" title="Ammonium chloride">ammonium chloride</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate" title="Sodium bicarbonate">sodium bicarbonate</a>, and possibly <a href="/wiki/Aldehyde" title="Aldehyde">aliphatic aldehydes</a>. These compounds were potentially deposited from Ganymede's ocean in past resurfacing events and were discovered to be most abundant in Ganymede's lower latitudes, shielded by its small magnetosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of these findings, there is increasing speculation on the potential <a href="/wiki/Planetary_habitability" title="Planetary habitability">habitability</a> of Ganymede's ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-amount_of_water_in_ocean_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amount_of_water_in_ocean-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-subsurface_ocean_found_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-subsurface_ocean_found-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Core">Core</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Core"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The existence of a liquid, <a href="/wiki/Iron%E2%80%93nickel_alloy" title="Iron–nickel alloy">iron–nickel</a>-rich core<sup id="cite_ref-Bhatia2017_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhatia2017-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> provides a natural explanation for the intrinsic <a href="/wiki/Magnetosphere" title="Magnetosphere">magnetic field</a> of Ganymede detected by <i>Galileo</i> spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Convection" title="Convection">convection</a> in the liquid iron, which has high <a href="/wiki/Electrical_conductivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical conductivity">electrical conductivity</a>, is the most reasonable model of magnetic field generation.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The density of the core is 5.5–6 g/cm<sup>3</sup> and the silicate mantle is 3.4–3.6 g/cm<sup>3</sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005_55-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sohl2002_79-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sohl2002-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kuskov2005b_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuskov2005b-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The radius of this core may be up to 500&#160;km.<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The temperature in the core of Ganymede is probably 1500–1700 K and pressure up to 10&#160;GPa (99,000&#160;atm).<sup id="cite_ref-Sohl2002_79-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sohl2002-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Atmosphere_and_ionosphere">Atmosphere and ionosphere</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Atmosphere and ionosphere"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1972, a team of Indian, British and American astronomers working in <a href="/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kavalur" title="Kavalur">Kavalur</a>, India claimed that they had detected a thin atmosphere during an <a href="/wiki/Occultation" title="Occultation">occultation</a>, when it and Jupiter passed in front of a <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">star</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Carlson1973_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carlson1973-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They estimated that the surface pressure was around 0.1 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">Pa</a> (1 microbar).<sup id="cite_ref-Carlson1973_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carlson1973-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in 1979, <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i> observed an occultation of the star <a href="/wiki/Kappa_Centauri" title="Kappa Centauri">κ Centauri</a> during its flyby of Jupiter, with differing results.<sup id="cite_ref-Broadfoot1981_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Broadfoot1981-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The occultation measurements were conducted in the <a href="/wiki/Far-ultraviolet" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-ultraviolet">far-ultraviolet</a> spectrum at <a href="/wiki/Wavelength" title="Wavelength">wavelengths</a> shorter than 200 <a href="/wiki/Nanometre" title="Nanometre">nm</a>, which were much more sensitive to the presence of gases than the 1972 measurements made in the <a href="/wiki/Visible_spectrum" title="Visible spectrum">visible spectrum</a>. No atmosphere was revealed by the <i>Voyager</i> data. The upper limit on the surface particle <a href="/wiki/Number_density" title="Number density">number density</a> was found to be <span class="nowrap">1.5<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000900000000000000♠"></span>9</span></sup> cm<sup>−3</sup></span>, which corresponds to a surface pressure of less than 2.5 μPa (25 picobar).<sup id="cite_ref-Broadfoot1981_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Broadfoot1981-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The latter value is almost five orders of magnitude less than the 1972 estimate.<sup id="cite_ref-Broadfoot1981_93-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Broadfoot1981-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg/220px-Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg/330px-Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Map_of_temparatureof_ganymede.jpg 2x" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption>False-color temperature map of Ganymede</figcaption></figure> <p>Despite the <i>Voyager</i> data, evidence for a tenuous oxygen atmosphere (<a href="/wiki/Exosphere" title="Exosphere">exosphere</a>) on Ganymede, very similar to the one found on Europa, was found by the <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> (HST) in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JPLAtmosphere_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JPLAtmosphere-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> HST actually observed <a href="/wiki/Airglow" title="Airglow">airglow</a> of atomic oxygen in the far-ultraviolet at the wavelengths 130.4&#160;nm and 135.6&#160;nm. Such an airglow is excited when <a href="/wiki/Molecular_oxygen" class="mw-redirect" title="Molecular oxygen">molecular oxygen</a> is <a href="/wiki/Dissociation_(chemistry)" title="Dissociation (chemistry)">dissociated</a> by electron impacts,<sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which is evidence of a significant neutral atmosphere composed predominantly of O<sub>2</sub> molecules. The surface number density probably lies in the <span class="nowrap">(1.2–7)<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000800000000000000♠"></span>8</span></sup> cm<sup>−3</sup></span> range, corresponding to the surface pressure of <span class="nowrap">0.2–1.2 μPa</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall1998_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall1998-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-surfacedensitynumber_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-surfacedensitynumber-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These values are in agreement with <i>Voyager</i>'s upper limit set in 1981. The oxygen is not evidence of life; it is thought to be produced when water ice on Ganymede's surface is split into <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen" title="Hydrogen">hydrogen</a> and oxygen by radiation, with the hydrogen then being more rapidly lost due to its low atomic mass.<sup id="cite_ref-JPLAtmosphere_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JPLAtmosphere-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The airglow observed over Ganymede is not spatially homogeneous like that observed over Europa. HST observed two bright spots located in the northern and southern hemispheres, near ± 50° latitude, which is exactly the boundary between the open and closed field lines of the Ganymedian magnetosphere (see below).<sup id="cite_ref-Feldman2000_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldman2000-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The bright spots are probably polar <a href="/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aurora (astronomy)">auroras</a>, caused by plasma precipitation along the open field lines.<sup id="cite_ref-Johnson1997_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnson1997-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The existence of a neutral atmosphere implies that an <a href="/wiki/Ionosphere" title="Ionosphere">ionosphere</a> should exist, because oxygen molecules are ionized by the impacts of the energetic <a href="/wiki/Electron" title="Electron">electrons</a> coming from the magnetosphere<sup id="cite_ref-Paranicas1999_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paranicas1999-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and by solar <a href="/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet" title="Extreme ultraviolet">EUV</a> radiation.<sup id="cite_ref-Eviatar2001_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eviatar2001-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the nature of the Ganymedian ionosphere is as controversial as the nature of the atmosphere. Some <i>Galileo</i> measurements found an elevated electron density near Ganymede, suggesting an ionosphere, whereas others failed to detect anything.<sup id="cite_ref-Eviatar2001_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eviatar2001-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The electron density near the surface is estimated by different sources to lie in the range 400–2,500&#160;cm<sup>−3</sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-Eviatar2001_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eviatar2001-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2008, the parameters of the ionosphere of Ganymede were not well constrained. </p><p>Additional evidence of the oxygen atmosphere comes from spectral detection of gases trapped in the ice at the surface of Ganymede. The detection of <a href="/wiki/Ozone" title="Ozone">ozone</a> (O<sub>3</sub>) bands was announced in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-Noll1996_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noll1996-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1997 spectroscopic analysis revealed the <a href="/wiki/Dimer_(chemistry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimer (chemistry)">dimer</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Diatomic" class="mw-redirect" title="Diatomic">diatomic</a>) absorption features of molecular oxygen. Such an absorption can arise only if the oxygen is in a dense phase. The best candidate is molecular oxygen trapped in ice. The depth of the dimer absorption bands depends on <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a> and <a href="/wiki/Longitude" title="Longitude">longitude</a>, rather than on surface albedo—they tend to decrease with increasing latitude on Ganymede, whereas O<sub>3</sub> shows an opposite trend.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxygen97_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxygen97-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Laboratory work has found that O<sub>2</sub> would not cluster or bubble but would dissolve in ice at Ganymede's relatively warm surface temperature of 100 K (−173.15&#160;°C).<sup id="cite_ref-sci.5320_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sci.5320-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A search for <a href="/wiki/Sodium" title="Sodium">sodium</a> in the atmosphere, just after such a finding on Europa, turned up nothing in 1997. Sodium is at least 13 times less abundant around Ganymede than around Europa, possibly because of a relative deficiency at the surface or because the magnetosphere fends off energetic particles.<sup id="cite_ref-ic.126.1_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ic.126.1-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another minor constituent of the Ganymedian atmosphere is <a href="/wiki/Atomic_hydrogen" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic hydrogen">atomic hydrogen</a>. Hydrogen atoms were observed as far as 3,000&#160;km from Ganymede's surface. Their density on the surface is about <span class="nowrap">1.5<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠"></span>4</span></sup> cm<sup>−3</sup></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Barth1997_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barth1997-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, water vapour was detected in the atmosphere of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magnetosphere">Magnetosphere</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Magnetosphere"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg/220px-Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg/330px-Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg/440px-Ganymede_magnetic_field.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="710" /></a><figcaption>Magnetic field of the Jovian satellite Ganymede, which is embedded into the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Closed field lines are marked with green color.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Galileo</i> craft made six close flybys of Ganymede from 1995 to 2000 (G1, G2, G7, G8, G28 and G29)<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and discovered that Ganymede has a permanent (intrinsic) <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_moment" title="Magnetic moment">magnetic moment</a> independent of the Jovian magnetic field.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1997_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1997-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The value of the moment is about <span class="nowrap">1.3&#160;×&#160;10<sup>13</sup> T·m<sup>3</sup></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which is three times larger than the <a href="/wiki/Mercury%27s_magnetic_field" title="Mercury&#39;s magnetic field">magnetic moment of Mercury</a>. The magnetic dipole is tilted with respect to the rotational axis of Ganymede by 176°, which means that it is directed against the Jovian magnetic moment.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its north pole lies below the <a href="/wiki/Orbital_plane_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orbital plane (astronomy)">orbital plane</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Dipole" title="Dipole">dipole magnetic field</a> created by this permanent moment has a strength of 719 ± 2 <a href="/wiki/Tesla_(unit)" title="Tesla (unit)">nT</a> at Ganymede's equator,<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which should be compared with the Jovian magnetic field at the distance of Ganymede—about 120 nT.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1997_105-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1997-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The equatorial field of Ganymede is directed against the Jovian field, meaning <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection" title="Magnetic reconnection">reconnection</a> is possible. The intrinsic field strength at the poles is two times that at the equator—1440 nT.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png/220px-15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png/330px-15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png/440px-15-33i2-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption>Aurorae on Ganymede—auroral belt shifting may indicate a subsurface saline ocean.</figcaption></figure> <p>The permanent magnetic moment carves a part of space around Ganymede, creating a tiny <a href="/wiki/Magnetosphere" title="Magnetosphere">magnetosphere</a> embedded inside <a href="/wiki/Jupiter%27s_magnetosphere" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter&#39;s magnetosphere">that of Jupiter</a>; it is the only moon in the Solar System known to possess the feature.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1997_105-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1997-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its diameter is 4–5 Ganymede radii.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1998_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1998-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Ganymedian magnetosphere has a region of closed <a href="/wiki/Field_line" title="Field line">field lines</a> located below 30° latitude, where <a href="/wiki/Charged_particle" title="Charged particle">charged particles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Electron" title="Electron">electrons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ion" title="Ion">ions</a>) are trapped, creating a kind of <a href="/wiki/Radiation_belt" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiation belt">radiation belt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1998_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1998-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The main ion species in the magnetosphere is single ionized oxygen<sup id="cite_ref-Eviatar2001_30-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eviatar2001-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (O<sup>+</sup>) which fits well with Ganymede's tenuous oxygen <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere" title="Atmosphere">atmosphere</a>. In the polar cap regions, at latitudes higher than 30°, magnetic field lines are open, connecting Ganymede with Jupiter's ionosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1998_106-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1998-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In these areas, the energetic (tens and hundreds of <a href="/wiki/Kiloelectronvolt" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiloelectronvolt">kiloelectronvolt</a>) electrons and ions have been detected,<sup id="cite_ref-Paranicas1999_98-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paranicas1999-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which may cause the auroras observed around the Ganymedian poles.<sup id="cite_ref-Feldman2000_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldman2000-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, heavy ions precipitate continuously on Ganymede's polar surface, <a href="/wiki/Sputtering" title="Sputtering">sputtering</a> and darkening the ice.<sup id="cite_ref-Paranicas1999_98-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paranicas1999-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The interaction between the Ganymedian magnetosphere and Jovian <a href="/wiki/Plasma_(physics)" title="Plasma (physics)">plasma</a> is in many respects similar to that of the <a href="/wiki/Solar_wind" title="Solar wind">solar wind</a> and Earth's magnetosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson1998_106-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson1998-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Volwerk1999_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Volwerk1999-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The plasma co-rotating with Jupiter impinges on the trailing side of the Ganymedian magnetosphere much like the solar wind impinges on the Earth's magnetosphere. The main difference is the speed of plasma flow—<a href="/wiki/Supersonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Supersonic">supersonic</a> in the case of Earth and <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_sound" title="Speed of sound">subsonic</a> in the case of Ganymede. Because of the subsonic flow, there is no <a href="/wiki/Bow_shock" title="Bow shock">bow shock</a> off the trailing hemisphere of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-Volwerk1999_107-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Volwerk1999-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the intrinsic magnetic moment, Ganymede has an induced dipole magnetic field.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its existence is connected with the variation of the Jovian magnetic field near Ganymede. The induced moment is directed radially to or from Jupiter following the direction of the varying part of the planetary magnetic field. The induced magnetic moment is an order of magnitude weaker than the intrinsic one. The <a href="/wiki/Field_strength" title="Field strength">field strength</a> of the induced field at the magnetic equator is about 60 nT—half of that of the ambient Jovian field.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The induced magnetic field of Ganymede is similar to those of Callisto and Europa, indicating that Ganymede also has a subsurface water ocean with a high electrical conductivity.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given that Ganymede is completely differentiated and has a metallic core,<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> its intrinsic magnetic field is probably generated in a similar fashion to the Earth's: as a result of conducting material moving in the interior.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The magnetic field detected around Ganymede is likely to be caused by compositional convection in the core,<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> if the magnetic field is the product of dynamo action, or magnetoconvection.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hauck2002_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauck2002-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the presence of an iron core, Ganymede's magnetosphere remains enigmatic, particularly given that similar bodies lack the feature.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some research has suggested that, given its relatively small size, the core ought to have sufficiently cooled to the point where fluid motions, hence a magnetic field would not be sustained. One explanation is that the same orbital resonances proposed to have disrupted the surface also allowed the magnetic field to persist: with Ganymede's eccentricity pumped and tidal heating of the mantle increased during such resonances, reducing heat flow from the core, leaving it fluid and convective.<sup id="cite_ref-Bland2007_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bland2007-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another explanation is a remnant magnetization of silicate rocks in the mantle, which is possible if the satellite had a more significant dynamo-generated field in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-Showman1999_11-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman1999-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radiation_environment">Radiation environment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Radiation environment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The radiation level at the surface of Ganymede is considerably lower than on Europa, being 50–80 mSv (5–8 rem) per day, an amount that would cause severe illness or death in human beings exposed for two months.<sup id="cite_ref-Podzolko_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Podzolko-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_and_evolution">Origin and evolution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Origin and evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede_terrain.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ganymede_terrain.jpg/250px-Ganymede_terrain.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ganymede_terrain.jpg/375px-Ganymede_terrain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ganymede_terrain.jpg/500px-Ganymede_terrain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1764" data-file-height="809" /></a><figcaption>A sharp boundary divides the ancient dark terrain of Nicholson Regio from the younger, finely striated bright terrain of Harpagia Sulcus.</figcaption></figure> <p>Ganymede probably formed by an <a href="/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)" title="Accretion (astrophysics)">accretion</a> in Jupiter's <a href="/wiki/Solar_nebula" class="mw-redirect" title="Solar nebula">subnebula</a>, a disk of gas and dust surrounding Jupiter after its formation.<sup id="cite_ref-Canup2002_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Canup2002-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The accretion of Ganymede probably took about 10,000 years,<sup id="cite_ref-Mosqueira2003_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mosqueira2003-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> much shorter than the 100,000 years estimated for Callisto. The Jovian subnebula may have been relatively "gas-starved" when the Galilean satellites formed; this would have allowed for the lengthy accretion times required for Callisto.<sup id="cite_ref-Canup2002_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Canup2002-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In contrast, Ganymede formed closer to Jupiter, where the subnebula was denser, which explains its shorter formation timescale.<sup id="cite_ref-Mosqueira2003_111-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mosqueira2003-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This relatively fast formation prevented the escape of accretional heat, which may have led to ice melt and <a href="/wiki/Planetary_differentiation" title="Planetary differentiation">differentiation</a>: the separation of the rocks and ice. The rocks settled to the center, forming the core.<sup id="cite_ref-Bhatia2017_80-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhatia2017-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this respect, Ganymede is different from Callisto, which apparently failed to melt and differentiate early due to loss of the accretional heat during its slower formation.<sup id="cite_ref-McKinnon2006_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McKinnon2006-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This hypothesis explains why the two Jovian moons look so dissimilar, despite their similar mass and composition.<sup id="cite_ref-Freeman2006_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freeman2006-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McKinnon2006_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McKinnon2006-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Alternative theories explain Ganymede's greater internal heating on the basis of tidal flexing<sup id="cite_ref-Showman2_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Showman2-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or more intense pummeling by impactors during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment" title="Late Heavy Bombardment">Late Heavy Bombardment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Baldwin_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baldwin-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Phys.Org2010_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Phys.Org2010-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LPI1158_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LPI1158-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barr3_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barr3-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the latter case, modeling suggests that differentiation would become a <a href="/wiki/Thermal_runaway" title="Thermal runaway">runaway process</a> at Ganymede but not Callisto.<sup id="cite_ref-LPI1158_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LPI1158-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barr3_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barr3-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After formation, Ganymede's core largely retained the heat accumulated during accretion and differentiation, only slowly releasing it to the ice mantle.<sup id="cite_ref-McKinnon2006_112-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McKinnon2006-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The mantle, in turn, transported it to the surface by convection.<sup id="cite_ref-Freeman2006_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freeman2006-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The decay of <a href="/wiki/Radioactivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Radioactivity">radioactive elements</a> within rocks further heated the core, causing increased differentiation: an inner, iron–iron-sulfide core and a silicate mantle formed.<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McKinnon2006_112-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McKinnon2006-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With this, Ganymede became a fully differentiated body.<sup id="cite_ref-Bhatia2017_80-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bhatia2017-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By comparison, the radioactive heating of undifferentiated Callisto caused convection in its icy interior, which effectively cooled it and prevented large-scale melting of ice and rapid differentiation.<sup id="cite_ref-Nagel2004_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nagel2004-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The convective motions in Callisto have caused only a partial separation of rock and ice.<sup id="cite_ref-Nagel2004_118-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nagel2004-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Today, Ganymede continues to cool slowly.<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The heat being released from its core and silicate mantle enables the subsurface ocean to exist,<sup id="cite_ref-Spohn2003_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spohn2003-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whereas the slow cooling of the liquid Fe–FeS core causes convection and supports magnetic field generation.<sup id="cite_ref-Hauk2006_91-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hauk2006-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The current <a href="/wiki/Heat_flux" title="Heat flux">heat flux</a> out of Ganymede is probably higher than that out of Callisto.<sup id="cite_ref-McKinnon2006_112-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McKinnon2006-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A study from 2020 by Hirata, Suetsugu and Ohtsuki suggests that Ganymede probably was hit by a massive asteroid 4 billion years ago; an impact so violent that may have shifted the moon's axis. The study came to this conclusion analyzing images of the furrows system in the satellite's surface.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploration">Exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several spacecraft have performed close <a href="/wiki/Flyby_(spaceflight)" title="Flyby (spaceflight)">flybys</a> of Ganymede: two <i>Pioneer</i> and two <i>Voyager</i> spacecraft made a single flyby each between 1973 and 1979; the <i>Galileo</i> spacecraft made six passes between 1996 and 2000; and the <a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)"><i>Juno</i></a> spacecraft performed two flybys in 2019 and 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20210608_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20210608-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> No spacecraft has yet orbited Ganymede, but the <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer" title="Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer">JUICE</a> mission, which launched in April 2023, intends to do so. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Completed_flybys">Completed flybys</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Completed flybys"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ganymede_from_Pioneer_10_19.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Ganymede_from_Pioneer_10_19.jpg/220px-Ganymede_from_Pioneer_10_19.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Ganymede_from_Pioneer_10_19.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Ganymede from <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></i> (1973)</figcaption></figure> <p>The first spacecraft to approach close to Ganymede was <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></i>, which performed a flyby in 1973 as it passed through the Jupiter system at high speed. <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_11" title="Pioneer 11">Pioneer 11</a></i> made a similar flyby in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-Pioneer_11_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pioneer_11-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Data sent back by the two spacecraft was used to determine the moon's physical characteristics<sup id="cite_ref-Terraformers_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Terraformers-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and provided images of the surface with up to 400&#160;km (250&#160;mi) resolution.<sup id="cite_ref-chap6_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chap6-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Pioneer 10's closest approach was 446,250&#160;km, about 85 times Ganymede's diameter.<sup id="cite_ref-dmu.p10_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dmu.p10-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_2" title="Voyager 2">Voyager 2</a></i> both studied Ganymede when passing through the Jupiter system in 1979. Data from those flybys were used to refine the size of Ganymede, revealing it was larger than <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>'s moon Titan, which was previously thought to have been bigger.<sup id="cite_ref-Voyager_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voyager-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Images from the <i>Voyagers</i> provided the first views of the moon's grooved surface terrain.<sup id="cite_ref-Voyager_Mission_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voyager_Mission-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Pioneer</i> and <i>Voyager</i> flybys were all at large distances and high speeds, as they flew on <a href="/wiki/Hyperbolic_orbit" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperbolic orbit">unbound trajectories</a> through the Jupiter system. Better data can be obtained from a spacecraft which is orbiting Jupiter, as it can encounter Ganymede at a lower speed and adjust the orbit for a closer approach. In 1995, the <i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">Galileo</a></i> spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter and between 1996 and 2000 made six close flybys of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Grand_Tour_47-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Grand_Tour-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These flybys were denoted G1, G2, G7, G8, G28 and G29.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the closest flyby (G2), <i>Galileo</i> passed just 264&#160;km from the surface of Ganymede (five percent of the moon's diameter),<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which remains the closest approach by any spacecraft. During the G1 flyby in 1996, <i>Galileo</i> instruments detected Ganymede's magnetic field.<sup id="cite_ref-Magnetic_Field_Discovery_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Magnetic_Field_Discovery-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Data from the <i>Galileo</i> flybys was used to discover the sub-surface ocean, which was announced in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-Kivelson2002_29-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kivelson2002-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Grand_Tour_47-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Grand_Tour-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> High spatial resolution spectra of Ganymede taken by <i>Galileo</i> were used to identify several non-ice compounds on the surface.<sup id="cite_ref-McCord1998_60-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCord1998-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i> spacecraft also observed Ganymede, but from a much larger distance as it passed through the Jupiter system in 2007 (en route to <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>). The data were used to perform topographic and compositional mapping of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-New_Horizons_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Horizons-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grundy2007_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grundy2007-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like <i>Galileo</i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i> spacecraft orbited Jupiter. On 2019 December 25, <i>Juno</i> performed a distant flyby of Ganymede during its 24th orbit of Jupiter, at a range of 97,680 to 109,439 kilometers (60,696 to 68,002&#160;mi). This flyby provided images of the moon's polar regions.<sup id="cite_ref-Juno_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Juno-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Inaf_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inaf-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2021, <i>Juno</i> performed a second flyby, at a closer distance of 1,038 kilometers (645&#160;mi).<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20210608_120-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20210608-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This encounter was designed to provide a <a href="/wiki/Gravity_assist" title="Gravity assist">gravity assist</a> to reduce <i>Juno'</i>s orbital period from 53 days to 43 days. Additional images of the surface were collected.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20210608_120-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20210608-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Future_missions">Future missions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Future missions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer" title="Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer">Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer</a> (JUICE) will be the first to enter orbit around Ganymede itself. JUICE was launched on April 14, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-esa-20221202_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-esa-20221202-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is intended to perform its first flyby of Ganymede in 2031, then enter orbit of the moon in 2032. When the spacecraft consumes its propellant, JUICE is planned to be deorbited and impact Ganymede in February 2034.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to JUICE, NASA's <a href="/wiki/Europa_Clipper" title="Europa Clipper">Europa Clipper</a>, which was launched in October 2024, will conduct 4 close flybys of Ganymede beginning in 2030.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It may also crash into Ganymede at the end of its mission to aid JUICE in studying the surface's geochemistry.<sup id="cite_ref-LPI_OPAG_2022_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LPI_OPAG_2022-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Waldek_2022_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waldek_2022-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cancelled_proposals">Cancelled proposals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Cancelled proposals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several other missions have been proposed to flyby or orbit Ganymede, but were either not selected for funding or cancelled before launch. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter" title="Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter">Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter</a> would have studied Ganymede in greater detail.<sup id="cite_ref-JIMO_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JIMO-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the mission was canceled in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-n.050207_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-n.050207-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another old proposal was called The Grandeur of Ganymede.<sup id="cite_ref-Pappalardo2001_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pappalardo2001-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Ganymede orbiter based on the <i>Juno</i> probe was proposed in 2010 for the <a href="/wiki/Planetary_Science_Decadal_Survey" title="Planetary Science Decadal Survey">Planetary Science Decadal Survey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ssb_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssb-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The mission was not supported, with the Decadal Survey preferring the <a href="/wiki/Europa_Clipper" title="Europa Clipper">Europa Clipper</a> mission instead.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Europa_Jupiter_System_Mission" class="mw-redirect" title="Europa Jupiter System Mission">Europa Jupiter System Mission</a> had a proposed launch date of 2020, and was a joint NASA and ESA proposal for exploration of many of Jupiter's moons including Ganymede. In February 2009 it was announced that ESA and NASA had given this mission priority ahead of the <a href="/wiki/Titan_Saturn_System_Mission" title="Titan Saturn System Mission">Titan Saturn System Mission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.7897585_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.7897585-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The mission was to consist of the NASA-led <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Europa_Orbiter" title="Jupiter Europa Orbiter">Jupiter Europa Orbiter</a>, the ESA-led <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Ganymede_Orbiter" title="Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter">Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter</a>, and possibly a <a href="/wiki/JAXA" title="JAXA">JAXA</a>-led <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Magnetospheric_Orbiter" title="Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter">Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter</a>. The NASA and JAXA components were later cancelled, and ESA's appeared likely to be cancelled too,<sup id="cite_ref-esa.41177_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-esa.41177-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but in 2012 ESA announced it would go ahead alone. The European part of the mission became the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE).<sup id="cite_ref-juiceL1_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-juiceL1-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Space_Research_Institute" title="Russian Space Research Institute">Russian Space Research Institute</a> proposed a Ganymede lander <a href="/wiki/Astrobiology" title="Astrobiology">astrobiology</a> mission called <a href="/wiki/Laplace-P" title="Laplace-P">Laplace-P</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Lander_workshop_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander_workshop-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> possibly in partnership with JUICE.<sup id="cite_ref-Lander_workshop_144-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander_workshop-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc.20407902_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.20407902-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> If selected, it would have been launched in 2023. The mission was cancelled due to a lack of funding in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cold_trap_(astronomy)" title="Cold trap (astronomy)">Cold trap (astronomy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter" title="Moons of Jupiter">Moons of Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galilean_moons" title="Galilean moons">Galilean moons</a> (the four biggest moons of Jupiter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter%27s_moons_in_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter&#39;s moons in fiction">Jupiter's moons in fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Ganymede" title="List of craters on Ganymede">List of craters on Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Ganymede" title="List of geological features on Ganymede">List of geological features on Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_natural_satellites" title="List of natural satellites">List of natural satellites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_and_Planetary_Institute" title="Lunar and Planetary Institute">Lunar and Planetary Institute</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ganymede_(moon)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-periapsiscomment-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-periapsiscomment_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Periapsis is derived from the semimajor axis (<i>a</i>) and eccentricity (<i>e</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle a\cdot (1-e)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>a</mi> <mo>&#x22C5;<!-- ⋅ --></mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>&#x2212;<!-- − --></mo> <mi>e</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle a\cdot (1-e)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bba903b68327af254cc313ce71020717cda4691b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:9.805ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle a\cdot (1-e)}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-apoapsiscomment-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-apoapsiscomment_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apoapsis is derived from the semimajor axis (<i>a</i>) and eccentricity (<i>e</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle a\cdot (1+e)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>a</mi> <mo>&#x22C5;<!-- ⋅ --></mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>e</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle a\cdot (1+e)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/3419fa988faf132ef5b3a77a4ed2cee675dce020" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:9.805ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle a\cdot (1+e)}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-surfaceareacomment-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-surfaceareacomment_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Surface area derived from the radius (<i>r</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{2}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mn>4</mn> <mi>&#x03C0;<!-- π --></mi> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{2}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b81fcce302776a01dc66fc186a1ce0a616b4d772" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:4.597ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{2}}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-volumecomment-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-volumecomment_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Volume derived from the radius (<i>r</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{3}/3}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mn>4</mn> <mi>&#x03C0;<!-- π --></mi> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>3</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mn>3</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{3}/3}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a8f404b3cbe747937404f1a0bc0fbc167e6ecb2a" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:6.922ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle 4\pi r^{3}/3}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-surfacegravitycomment-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-surfacegravitycomment_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Surface gravity derived from the mass (<i>m</i>), the <a href="/wiki/Gravitational_constant" title="Gravitational constant">gravitational constant</a> (<i>G</i>) and the radius (<i>r</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Gm/r^{2}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>G</mi> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Gm/r^{2}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8ecf411b2c6f7541f7c491168f3dfda76c5b1079" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:7.132ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Gm/r^{2}}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-escapevelocitycomment-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-escapevelocitycomment_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Escape velocity derived from the mass (<i>m</i>), the <a href="/wiki/Gravitational_constant" title="Gravitational constant">gravitational constant</a> (<i>G</i>) and the radius (<i>r</i>): <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \textstyle {\sqrt {2Gm/r}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mstyle displaystyle="false" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <msqrt> <mn>2</mn> <mi>G</mi> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>r</mi> </msqrt> </mrow> </mstyle> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \textstyle {\sqrt {2Gm/r}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/49dad6d03cb538ba302224ee081628149e4a1476" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.005ex; width:9.564ex; height:3.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \textstyle {\sqrt {2Gm/r}}}"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Marius-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Marius_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Marius_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">It is probable that the German astronomer <a href="/wiki/Simon_Marius" title="Simon Marius">Simon Marius</a> discovered it independently the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-laplaceres-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-laplaceres_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A Laplace-like resonance is similar to the current Laplace resonance among the Galilean moons with the only difference being that longitudes of the Io–Europa and Europa–Ganymede conjunctions change with rates whose ratio is a non-unity rational number. 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href="/wiki/Jupiter_LII" title="Jupiter LII">Jupiter LII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LIV" title="Jupiter LIV">Jupiter LIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mneme_(moon)" title="Mneme (moon)">Mneme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euanthe_(moon)" title="Euanthe (moon)">Euanthe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_16" title="S/2003 J 16">S/2003 J 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpalyke_(moon)" title="Harpalyke (moon)">Harpalyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthosie_(moon)" title="Orthosie (moon)">Orthosie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2022_J_3" title="S/2022 J 3">S/2022 J 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helike_(moon)" title="Helike (moon)">Helike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2021_J_2" title="S/2021 J 2">S/2021 J 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxidike_(moon)" title="Praxidike (moon)">Praxidike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXIV" title="Jupiter LXIV">Jupiter LXIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2021_J_1" title="S/2021 J 1">S/2021 J 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_12" title="S/2003 J 12">S/2003 J 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXVIII" title="Jupiter LXVIII">Jupiter LXVIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thelxinoe_(moon)" title="Thelxinoe (moon)">Thelxinoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thyone_(moon)" title="Thyone (moon)">Thyone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_2" title="S/2003 J 2">S/2003 J 2</a></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ananke_(moon)" title="Ananke (moon)">Ananke</a></b></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iocaste_(moon)" title="Iocaste (moon)">Iocaste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermippe_(moon)" title="Hermippe (moon)">Hermippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXX" title="Jupiter LXX">Jupiter LXX</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Carme_group" title="Carme group">Carme group</a> (30)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S/2022_J_1" title="S/2022 J 1">S/2022 J 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2022_J_2" title="S/2022 J 2">S/2022 J 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2016_J_3" title="S/2016 J 3">S/2016 J 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasithee_(moon)" title="Pasithee (moon)">Pasithee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXIX" title="Jupiter LXIX">Jupiter LXIX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2021_J_6" title="S/2021 J 6">S/2021 J 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_24" title="S/2003 J 24">S/2003 J 24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaldene" title="Chaldene">Chaldene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXIII" title="Jupiter LXIII">Jupiter LXIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isonoe_(moon)" title="Isonoe (moon)">Isonoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2021_J_4" title="S/2021 J 4">S/2021 J 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kallichore_(moon)" title="Kallichore (moon)">Kallichore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erinome" title="Erinome">Erinome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kale_(moon)" title="Kale (moon)">Kale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eirene_(moon)" title="Eirene (moon)">Eirene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aitne_(moon)" title="Aitne (moon)">Aitne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eukelade" title="Eukelade">Eukelade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arche_(moon)" title="Arche (moon)">Arche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taygete_(moon)" title="Taygete (moon)">Taygete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXXII" title="Jupiter LXXII">Jupiter LXXII</a></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Carme_(moon)" title="Carme (moon)">Carme</a></b></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herse_(moon)" title="Herse (moon)">Herse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXI" title="Jupiter LXI">Jupiter LXI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LI" title="Jupiter LI">Jupiter LI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_9" title="S/2003 J 9">S/2003 J 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXVI" title="Jupiter LXVI">Jupiter LXVI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyke" title="Kalyke">Kalyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2018_J_3" title="S/2018 J 3">S/2018 J 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2021_J_5" title="S/2021 J 5">S/2021 J 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_10" title="S/2003 J 10">S/2003 J 10</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pasiphae_group" title="Pasiphae group">Pasiphae group</a> (18)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philophrosyne_(moon)" title="Philophrosyne (moon)">Philophrosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurydome_(moon)" title="Eurydome (moon)">Eurydome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LVI" title="Jupiter LVI">Jupiter LVI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_4" title="S/2003 J 4">S/2003 J 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2016_J_4" title="S/2016 J 4">S/2016 J 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LXVII" title="Jupiter LXVII">Jupiter LXVII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hegemone_(moon)" title="Hegemone (moon)">Hegemone</a></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pasiphae_(moon)" title="Pasiphae (moon)">Pasiphae</a></b></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sponde" title="Sponde">Sponde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megaclite" title="Megaclite">Megaclite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyllene_(moon)" title="Cyllene (moon)">Cyllene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinope_(moon)" title="Sinope (moon)">Sinope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_LIX" title="Jupiter LIX">Jupiter LIX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aoede_(moon)" title="Aoede (moon)">Aoede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonoe_(moon)" title="Autonoe (moon)">Autonoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callirrhoe_(moon)" title="Callirrhoe (moon)">Callirrhoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2003_J_23" title="S/2003 J 23">S/2003 J 23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kore_(moon)" title="Kore (moon)">Kore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Jupiter" title="Rings of Jupiter">Rings of Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter%27s_moons_in_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter&#39;s moons in fiction">Jupiter's moons in fiction</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Category:Moons_of_Jupiter" title="Category:Moons of Jupiter">Category</a></b></li></ul> 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href="/wiki/Weywot" title="Weywot">Quaoar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2015_(136472)_1" title="S/2015 (136472) 1">Makemake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiangliu_(moon)" title="Xiangliu (moon)">Gonggong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(moon)" title="Dysnomia (moon)">Eris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Minor-planet_moon" title="Minor-planet moon">Minor-planet<br />moons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>Near-Earth</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/3122_Florence" title="3122 Florence">Florence</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/65803_Didymos" title="65803 Didymos">Didymos</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Dimorphos" title="Dimorphos">Dimorphos</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/66391_Moshup" title="66391 Moshup">Moshup</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/66391_Moshup#Satellite" title="66391 Moshup">Squannit</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(136617)_1994_CC" title="(136617) 1994 CC">1994 CC</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(153591)_2001_SN263" title="(153591) 2001 SN263">2001 SN<sub>263</sub></a></span></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Main belt</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/22_Kalliope" title="22 Kalliope">Kalliope</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Linus_(moon)" title="Linus (moon)">Linus</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/31_Euphrosyne" title="31 Euphrosyne">Euphrosyne</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/41_Daphne" title="41 Daphne">Daphne</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;">Peneius</span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/45_Eugenia" title="45 Eugenia">Eugenia</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Petit-Prince_(moon)" title="Petit-Prince (moon)">Petit-Prince</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/87_Sylvia" title="87 Sylvia">Sylvia</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Romulus_(moon)" title="Romulus (moon)">Romulus</a></span></dd> <dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Remus_(moon)" title="Remus (moon)">Remus</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/93_Minerva" title="93 Minerva">Minerva</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;">Aegis</span></dd> <dd><span style="font-size:85%;">Gorgoneion</span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/107_Camilla" title="107 Camilla">Camilla</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/130_Elektra" title="130 Elektra">Elektra</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/216_Kleopatra" title="216 Kleopatra">Kleopatra</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;">Alexhelios</span></dd> <dd><span style="font-size:85%;">Cleoselene</span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/243_Ida" title="243 Ida">Ida</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Dactyl_(moon)" title="Dactyl (moon)">Dactyl</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/317_Roxane" title="317 Roxane">Roxane</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Olympias_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympias (moon)">Olympias</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/762_Pulcova" title="762 Pulcova">Pulcova</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/3749_Balam" title="3749 Balam">Balam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/152830_Dinkinesh" title="152830 Dinkinesh">Dinkinesh</a> (Selam)</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Jupiter trojans</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/617_Patroclus" title="617 Patroclus">Patroclus</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Menoetius_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Menoetius (moon)">Menoetius</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/624_Hektor" title="624 Hektor">Hektor</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Skamandrios_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Skamandrios (moon)">Skamandrios</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/3548_Eurybates" title="3548 Eurybates">Eurybates</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Queta_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Queta (moon)">Queta</a></span></dd></dl></dd></dl> <dl><dt>TNOs</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/47171_Lempo" title="47171 Lempo">Lempo</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/47171_Lempo#Hiisi" title="47171 Lempo">Hiisi</a></span></dd> <dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/47171_Lempo#Paha" title="47171 Lempo">Paha</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(55637)_2002_UX25" title="(55637) 2002 UX25">2002 UX<sub>25</sub></a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/79360_Sila%E2%80%93Nunam" title="79360 Sila–Nunam">Sila–Nunam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/120347_Salacia" title="120347 Salacia">Salacia</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Actaea_(moon)" title="Actaea (moon)">Actaea</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/174567_Varda" title="174567 Varda">Varda</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ilmar%C3%AB" title="Ilmarë">Ilmarë</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/229762_G%C7%83k%C3%BAn%C7%81%CA%BCh%C3%B2md%C3%ADm%C3%A0" title="229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà">Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà</a> <dl><dd><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/G%C7%83%C3%B2%CA%BC%C3%A9_%C7%83H%C3%BA" class="mw-redirect" title="Gǃòʼé ǃHú">Gǃòʼé ǃHú</a></span></dd></dl></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(532037)_2013_FY27" title="(532037) 2013 FY27">2013 FY<sub>27</sub></a></span></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Ranked<br />by size</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ganymede</a> <ul><li><small><b>largest</b>: 5268 km / 0.413 Earths</small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(moon)" title="Triton (moon)">Triton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titania_(moon)" title="Titania (moon)">Titania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(moon)" title="Rhea (moon)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oberon_(moon)" title="Oberon (moon)">Oberon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)" title="Iapetus (moon)">Iapetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charon_(moon)" title="Charon (moon)">Charon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umbriel" title="Umbriel">Umbriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_(moon)" title="Ariel (moon)">Ariel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dione_(moon)" title="Dione (moon)">Dione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(moon)" title="Tethys (moon)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(moon)" title="Dysnomia (moon)">Dysnomia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enceladus" title="Enceladus">Enceladus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miranda_(moon)" title="Miranda (moon)">Miranda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">Vanth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus_(moon)" title="Proteus (moon)">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas">Mimas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilmar%C3%AB" title="Ilmarë">Ilmarë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereid_(moon)" title="Nereid (moon)">Nereid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hi%CA%BBiaka_(moon)" title="Hiʻiaka (moon)">Hiʻiaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actaea_(moon)" title="Actaea (moon)">Actaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)" title="Hyperion (moon)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_(moon)" title="Phoebe (moon)">Phoebe</a></li> <li>...</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="text-align: center;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_discovery_of_Solar_System_planets_and_their_moons" title="Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons">Discovery timeline</a></li> <li><a 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inner</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metis_(moon)" title="Metis (moon)">Metis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrastea_(moon)" title="Adrastea (moon)">Adrastea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amalthea_(moon)" title="Amalthea (moon)">Amalthea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thebe_(moon)" title="Thebe (moon)">Thebe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Galilean_moons" title="Galilean moons">Galilean</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Greek_camp)" title="List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)">Greek camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Trojan_camp)" title="List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp)">Trojan camp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Impact_events_on_Jupiter" title="Impact events on Jupiter">Impacts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9" title="Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9">Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Jupiter_impact_event" title="2009 Jupiter impact event">2009 Jupiter impact event</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Jupiter_impact_event" title="2010 Jupiter impact event">2010 Jupiter impact event</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Jupiter_impact_event" title="2016 Jupiter impact event">2016 Jupiter impact event</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_Jupiter" title="Exploration of Jupiter">Exploration</a>,<br />orbital<br />missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a 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