Ganymede may generate its magnetic field through a core that is still forming today, challenging long-held ideas about planetary dynamos. In 1996, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew past Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon and the largest moon in the Solar System. It detected something scientists never expected to find there: a magnetic field. Every other moon in the Solar System is magnetica... [5479 chars]
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