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Ganymede Was Struck by Giant Asteroid 4 Billion Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Ganymede Was Struck by Giant Asteroid 4 Billion Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Posted by By News Staff September 3, 2024
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has an ancient impact structure called a furrow system. This system is the largest impact structure in the outer Solar System, and the impact should have significantly…
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Planetary Reseachers Create 3D Radiation Map of Jovian System

Planetary Reseachers Create 3D Radiation Map of Jovian System

Posted by By News Staff August 27, 2024
Using data gathered by the Advanced Stellar Compass (ASC) and the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) onboard NASA’s Juno orbiter, scientists have produced the first complete 3D radiation map of the…
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Juno Detects Various Salts and Organic Compounds on Ganymede

Juno Detects Various Salts and Organic Compounds on Ganymede

Posted by By News Staff November 1, 2023
Using data from the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have detected hydrated sodium chloride, ammonium chloride and sodium/ammonium carbonate, as well as organic compounds…
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Webb Detects Hydrogen Peroxide on Ganymede

Webb Detects Hydrogen Peroxide on Ganymede

Posted by By News Staff July 30, 2023
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the only satellite in the Solar System known to have an intrinsic magnetic field. Interactions between this field and the magnetosphere of Jupiter are expected to…
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Local Tectonic Activity Could Cause Landslides on Icy Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn

Local Tectonic Activity Could Cause Landslides on Icy Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn

Posted by By News Staff April 17, 2023
Intense tectonism is evident on many outer solar system satellites — such as Ganymede, Europa, and Enceladus — with some surface regions showing ridge-and-trough structures which have characteristics suggestive of…
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ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Launches to Study Jupiter’s Icy Moons

ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Launches to Study Jupiter’s Icy Moons

Posted by By News Staff April 17, 2023
ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, the JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer (JUICE), lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 14:14 CEST on April 14, 2023, to begin its eight-year…
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Scientists Explain Why Jupiter’s and Saturn’s Icy Moons Have Extreme Radar Properties

Scientists Explain Why Jupiter’s and Saturn’s Icy Moons Have Extreme Radar Properties

Posted by By News Staff March 23, 2023
The radar properties of icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn commonly differ by more than an order of magnitude from those of rocky planets because of the lower absorptivity of…
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Planetary Scientists Create Two New Forms of Extraterrestrial Ice

Planetary Scientists Create Two New Forms of Extraterrestrial Ice

Posted by By News Staff February 21, 2023
University of Washington researcher Baptiste Journaux and colleagues believe the newly-created substances could form at the surface and bottom of deep oceans on Jupiter’s icy moons Europa and Ganymede. This…
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Planetary Scientists Create Global Map of Volcanic Hotspots on Io

Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Io’s volcanoes are powered by both the extreme tides ...
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Earth Had Ring System 466 Million Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Breakup of an asteroid passing within Earth’s Roche limit likely formed the debris ring during the middle Ordovician period, according ...
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