Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Animation of a rotating globe of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, with a geologic map superimposed over a global color mosaic.

Read the full story at: discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/solar-systems-biggest-moon-ganymede-mapped-video

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Credit: USGS Astrogeology Science Center/Wheaton/ASU/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Collins, G.C., Patterson, G.W., Head, J.W., Pappalardo, R.T., Prockter, L.M., Lucchitta, B.K., and Kay, J.P., 2013, Global geologic map of Ganymede: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3237, pamphlet 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:15,000,000, dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3237.

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