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Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy that became one of Zeus' lovers. One source of the myth says that Zeus fell in love with Ganymede when he spotted him herding his flock on Mount Ida. Zeus then came down in the form of an eagle or sent an eagle ... ... Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy that became one of Zeus' lovers.
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Ganymede ("GAN uh meed") is the seventh and largest of Jupiter's known satellites. Ganymede is the third of the Galilean moons. ... Ganymede was a Trojan boy of great beauty whom Zeus carried away to be cup bearer to the gods.
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Galileo plunged into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003. The spacecraft was deliberately destroyed to protect one of its own discoveries - a possible ocean beneath the icy crust ... It found evidence of subsurface saltwater on Europa, Ganymede and Callisto and revealed the intensity of volcanic activity on Io.
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Ganymede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ganymede most often refers to: •Ganymede (mythology), Trojan prince in Greek mythology • Ganymede (moon), Jupiter's largest moon, named after the mythological character Ganymede , Ganymed or Gan...
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Ganymede is the largest satellite in our solar system. It is larger than Mercury and Pluto, and three-quarters the size of Mars. If Ganymede orbited the Sun instead of orbiting Jupiter, it would easily be classified as a planet.
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PHYSICAL DATA FOR GANYMEDE ... Ganymede's mantle is most likely composed of ice and silicates, and its crust is probably a thick layer of water ice. G anymede has no known atmosphere, but recently the Hubble Space Telescope detected ozone at its surface.
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Voyager images of Ganymede have shown that the satellite has a complex geological history. Ganymede's surface is a mixture of two types of terrain. Forty percent of the surface of Ganymede is covered by highly cratered dark regions, and the remaining sixty percent is covered by a light grooved terrain which forms...
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Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system with a diameter of 5,268 km (3270 miles). It is larger than Mercury and Pluto, and three-quarters the size of Mars. If Ganymede orbited the Sun instead of orbiting Jupiter, it would easily be classified as a planet. ... More about Ganymede...
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