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Ganymede
[gan-uh-meed]
noun
Classical Mythology.ĢżAlso Ganymedes a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
Astronomy.Ģżthe largest moon of the planet Jupiter.
Ganymede
1/ ĖɔƦ²ŌÉŖĖ³¾¾±Ė»å /
noun
classical myth a beautiful Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus to Olympus and made the cupbearer of the gods
Ganymede
2/ ĖɔƦ²ŌÉŖĖ³¾¾±Ė»å /
noun
the brightest and largest of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and the largest in the solar system. Diameter: 5262 km; orbital radius: 1Ģż070Ģż000 km
Ganymede
One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the seventh in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest satellite in the solar system.
Example Sentences
That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturnās moons Titan and Enceladus, Uranus' moon Miranda and the dwarf planet Ceres.
On Sept. 3, 2034, Europa Clipper will intentionally slam into Jupiterās rocky moon Ganymede, ensuring the spacecraft doesnāt accidentally strike one of the planetās more scientifically interesting moons.
Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean moons, which in addition to Io include Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
Astronomers had previously found clear signs of subsurface oceans on only two of Saturnās moonsāEnceladus and Titanāand on Jupiterās moons Europa and Ganymede.
Orbital resonance, as seen with Jupiterās moons, happens when planetary bodiesā orbits line up ā for example, Io orbits Jupiter four times in the time it takes Europa to orbit twice and Ganymede to orbit once.
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