Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is used to uniquely identify a feature on the surface of a planet or satellite so that the feature can be easily located, described, and…
This sheet is one in a series of maps of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter at a nominal scale of 1:15,000,000. This series is based on data from the Galileo Orbiter Solid-State Imaging (SSI) camera…
Ganymede is the largest (~5,200 km diameter) known satellite in the Solar System and the third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter. Its density (1.93 g/cm3) and surface spectral characteristics…