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Jupiter’s huge moon Ganymede may have the largest impact scar in the solar system – techtoday19
Home News Science & Astronomy An artist’s depiction of Jupiter, at left, and its massive moon Ganymede in the foreground. (Image: © Tsunehiko Kato, 4D2U Project, NAOJ) Scientists have discovered what they believe may be the largest impact crater in the entire…
Scientists have discovered what they believe may be the largest impact crater in the entire solar system, with scars covering a vast portion of Jupiter’s biggest moon, Ganymede
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The scientists behind the new research wanted to revisit observations from a host of past NASA missions that studied the massive moon, which is larger than Mercury
, the smallest planet in our neighborhood. In particular, they were intrigued by a set of features dubbed furrows, which appear on some of the moon’s olde…
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