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Ganymede (sodalite)

Jovian system as front porch light. Jupiter is a hand painted glass globe. The 4 Galilean moons are mineral spheres suspended on glass rods. The moons themselves are just over 3x scale, but their orbits are to scale with Jupiter. In other words, stand under any moon, look up at Jupiter, and that's how large it would appear in the sky from that moon's surface.

 

Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system. It's water ice surface is highly geologically active. It is in 1:4 resonance with Io.

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Uploaded on March 29, 2013
Taken on March 29, 2013