This image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. At the time of closest approach, Juno was within ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered what they believe may be the largest impact crater in the entire solar ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter this week got to within 645 miles/1,000 kilometers of Ganymede, the Solar System’s largest moon. The spacecraft’s JunoCam imaging system had just 25 minutes to take ...

It was the closest spacecraft encounter with Ganymede since May 2000. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The photos from a historic ...

NASA's Juno deep-space probe has sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, to be captured in two decades. Snapped during Juno's flyby of the giant moon on June 7, the ...

NASA has detected water vapor for the very first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede — not only Jupiter's largest moon, but the largest moon in our entire solar system. Researchers made the discovery ...

The largest moon in our solar system may have been knocked off its axis and cracked like an egg four billion years ago by an asteroid bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth at the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured vivid images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby on June 7. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Ganymede, a behemoth of an icy moon in Jupiter's orbit, was ...

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the site of the largest impact crater in the solar system, according to new research from Japan’s Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College.

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