In Depth | Earth's Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration
The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.
In Depth | Titan – NASA Solar System Exploration
Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury.
Ganymede science questions and future exploration
Dec 19, 2024 · This paper summarizes outstanding science questions about Ganymede and its place in the Jupiter system, and how further exploration would answer these questions.
Ganymede 3D Model - NASA Solar System Exploration
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In Depth | Europa – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jupiter’s large Galilean moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto – likely formed out of leftover material after Jupiter condensed from the initial cloud of gas and dust surrounding the sun, early in the history of the solar system.
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jupiter's menagerie of moons includes the largest in the solar system (Ganymede), an ocean moon (Europa) and a volcanic moon (Io). Many of Jupiter's outer moons have highly elliptical orbits and orbit backwards (opposite to the spin of the planet).
Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover' - NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 16, 2013 · Neish and her team compared craters on Titan to craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Ganymede is a giant moon with a water ice crust, similar to Titan, so craters on the two moons should have similar shapes.
Io: A Volcanic Puzzle – NASA Solar System Exploration
Nov 9, 1995 · Io's insides are heated instead by a tidal interaction process between Io, Jupiter and two other moons of Jupiter named Ganymede and Europa. Because Ganymede and Europa gravitationally tug on Io, Io's orbit around Jupiter is not perfectly circular.
Galileo Mission Finds Strange Interior of Jovian Moon
Jun 4, 1998 · New data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have prompted scientists to modify their concept of the interior structure of Jupiter's moon, Callisto, and suggest that Callisto has evolved differently than the other largest Jovian moons -- Io, Ganymede and Europa.
Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan
Mar 10, 2010 · The finding, to be published in the March 12 issue of the journal Science, shows how Titan evolved in a different fashion from inner planets such as Earth, or icy moons such as Jupiter's Ganymede, whose interiors have split into distinctive layers.