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…
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…
As a result of imagery returned from the Galileo spacecraft, the Galilean satellites have been the focus of a great deal of scientific research and general public interest. New control networks and…
