The Juno science team will now scour the images, comparing them to those from previous missions, looking for changes in surface features that might have occurred in the 20 years since Ganymede was ...

This incredible instrument tracked the composition of Ganymede’s surface in great detail, noting features as small as 1 kilometer wide. If JIRAM were looking at New York City, it would be able ...

Over the following 2.5 years, the solar-powered JUICE will orbit the gas giant while swinging past Ganymede, Europa and Callisto multiple times, cataloging their surface features as well as ...

The observations of Ganymede, published in the journal JGR: Planets, show how the surface is made up to two ... of Europa and Ganymede, observing features on their surfaces smaller than 150 ...

Deep furrows cover large swaths of Ganymede’s surface, and they form a pattern ... degraded geologic features on planetary bodies and how they affect a planet’s orientation,” she said.

The highly detailed observations reveal geological features on the two frozen Jovian ... images to map the size of ice grains across Ganymede's surface and determine how different salts may ...

The images provide new insights into the chemical composition of the moons, including geological features such as long rift-like lines cutting across Europa’s surface. Ganymede and Europa are ...