Ganymede, at its true size

A moon bigger than Mercury. Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system, wider than the planet Mercury, and the only moon with a magnetic field of its own. ESA’s JUICE is on its way, to circle it from 2034.

Across
5,270 km
Surface
87.2 million km²
A day
7 Earth days
A year
7.2 days round Jupiter
From Jupiter
1,070,000 km
Gravity
0.15 × the Earth’s
Temperature
-163 °C
Moons
0

What you’re seeing

A mosaic of Galileo and Voyager pictures, in black and white. Where no spacecraft looked, it is plain grey.

USGS Astrogeology, Galileo and Voyager global mosaic, public domain.