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Compass and Scale Image for Ganymede
CreditsNASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2015
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2015-09-3504-image
Credits
NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Ganymede |
| Object Description | Jovian Moon: Jupiter has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator. Ganymede has a diameter of 3,270 miles (5,262 km). |
| Distance | The semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the Sun is 5.2 astronomical units (483 million miles or 778 million km). Ganymede orbits at a mean distance of 665,000 miles (1 million km) from Jupiter. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposal: PI: J. Saur (University of Cologne, Germany), P. Feldman and D. Strobel (JHU), K. Retherford (SwRI), M. McGrath (NASA/MSFC), and S. Duling (University of Cologne, Germany). The science team includes: J. Saur and S. Duling (University of Cologne, Germany), L. Roth (SwRI/University of Cologne, Germany), D. Strobel and P. Feldman (JHU), U. Christensen (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany), K. Retherford (SwRI), M. McGrath (NASA/MSFC), F. Musacchio, A. Wennmacher, and F. Neubauer (University of Cologne, Germany), and S. Simon (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta), and O. Hartkorn (University of Cologne, Germany). |
| Instrument | HST>STIS |
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