A giant impact may have caused cracks all over Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

NASA/JPL/OWW

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is lined in cracks which would perhaps be proof of a most most essential collision, making them the largest identified influence construction in the photo voltaic system.

Ganymede is the largest moon in the photo voltaic system, and the ninth biggest object – higher even than the planet Mercury – measuring more than 5000 kilometres at some stage in. It has been visited by a pair of spacecraft, at the side of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in 1979, and the Galileo spacecraft from 1996 to 2000.

Images from these spacecraft printed cracks or furrows on the outside of the moon, …