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…
NOTES ON BASE: This sheet is one in a series of maps that covers the surface of Galilean satellites of Jupiter at a nominal scale of 1: 5,000,000 (Batson and others, 1980). Sources for the series…
The images used for the base of this globe were chosen from coverage supplied by the Galileo solid-state imaging (SSI) camera and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The monochrome and color data were both…
This global map base of Ganymede utilizes the best image quality and moderate resolution coverage supplied by Galileo SSI (Solid State Imaging instrument) and Voyager 1 and 2. The image processing…