Ganymede

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Hello everyone it is I! Your agent leader. I come to thee with yet another #takeover

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Today I will be talking about one of the Moons of Jupiter!

Ganymede is composed of exactly half rock and half of water. It is contained of an internal ocean. Which, fun fact, is suspected to be more of earth's oceans combined.

The surface of the moon is composed of two types of terrain. Dark and light regions.

Dark Regions are saturated with impact craters.

Light Regions are crosscut by extensive grooves. The reason for this is not 100% known. However it is suspected to be because of tidal heating.

Ganymedes discovery is thanks to Galileo Galilei. They were the first to discover it on January 7th 1610.

Ganymede Orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 1,000,400 KM.

It completes a revolution every 7 days.

Just like other known Moons it's tidally locked. Meaning one side is always facing the planet.

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Ganymede is actually the largest and most massive moon in the solar system. It has a diameter of 5,628 KM.

The surface of the moon is actually very acemetric.

The hemisphere appears to be enriched in solar dioxide.

Catering is actually seen on both types of the terrains I mentioned earlier in my post. The catering seems to be more extensive on the dark terrain as opposed to the light terrain. The blight terrain contains much fewer craters in comparisons.

Ganymede actually has polar caps. It was known and suspected to be caused by the frost of water.

It was first spotted by the Voyager spacecraft.

As I mentioned before the internal ocean of the moon and how it is more water than earth's oceans. Well it is speculated if there is actually habitats in the water. It is not proven but speculated.

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Just recently on June 8th of this year we actually got some footage of Jupiter's biggest moon. Well... Ganymede.

The Juno spacecraft made its flyby. The Juno spacecraft was actually one of the first spacecraft in centuries that was the closest.

July 14th Nasa released footage animation of the experience.

Which you can watch Here.

It took 14 hours for Juno to between Jupiter and Ganymede.

It shows exactly what i mentioned above on our post. The light and dark region. Aswell as the largest crater.

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Thank You all for reading all about one of the Moons of Jupiter!

If you guys know any more facts or information based on Ganymede. Feel free to comment in the comment section!

Tis all I have for today.

Until next time. :sunglasses:

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