Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto

Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 15:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior states, according to research by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute appearing online in Nature Geoscience Jan. 24, 2010...

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