Ganymede

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Jul 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002eaa..booke2161s&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2161. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Planets And Satellites

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Ganymede, one of Jupiter's icy moons and one of the Galilean satellites, is the largest planetary satellite in the solar system (see figure 1). This moon, which is larger than the planet Mercury (Ganymede's radius is 2638 km, Mercury's radius is 2439 km), generates its own magnetic field and has large polar caps composed of thin frosts which reach an average latitude of 40 degrees....

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