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…
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…