Posted on 02/13/2014 12:27:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists have created the first global geological map of Jupiter's huge, ice-covered moon Ganymede, more than 400 years after its discovery by Galileo Galilei. The map, created using observations by NASA's twin Voyager probes and Galileo orbiter, highlights the varied terrain of Ganymede, which is bigger than the planet Mercury.
"This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on Ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface," Robert Pappalardo, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement. "This map is helping planetary scientists to decipher the evolution of this icy world and will aid in upcoming spacecraft observations." [
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Pingawinga
Are the green spots on the map indicative of jungle vegetation?
under the third green spot from the left is where Obama’s real birth certificate is hidden...
Amazing! Maybe we will find 900 FBI files as well.
ping
Seems kind of funny that they just now get around to making a map when we have a spacecraft on its way there for the first time in years.
Ain’t nobody in da whole universe safe from Google Street View, huh...
...and Epsilon III
There’s likely a saltwater ocean beneath that crust, which could make for some pretty strange critters down there.
Ganymede & its twin satellite, Aganymede
Ceres or Ganymede would likely be better colonization places than mars of the moon because of the water.
I always thought it was Gandymede not Ganymede?
Or did someone just edit the world?
No, there’s no “d” on the name. We won’t have a better map until 2032 or so when ESA’s JUICE mission arrives.
Venus is just a little smaller than Earth, but if you put Mars and Ganymede together, they would be just a little smaller than Venus.
Thanks for posting this, I almost did.
Thanks for the pings, extra to APoD.
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